CVE-2007-5116

CWE-119 — Buffer Overflow10 documents8 sources
Severity
7.5HIGH
EPSS
8.8%
top 7.47%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
4
Larry Wall PerlMandrakesoft Mandrake Multi Network FirewallOpenpkg Openpkg+1 more
Timeline
PublishedNov 7
Latest updateMay 3

Description

Buffer overflow in the polymorphic opcode support in the Regular Expression Engine (regcomp.c) in Perl 5.8 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code by switching from byte to Unicode (UTF) characters in a regular expression.

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/C:P/I:P/A:PExploitability: 10.0 | Impact: 6.4

Affected Packages4 packages

▶Debianperl< 5.8.8-12+3
▶NVDlarry_wall/perl11 versions+10
▶NVDopenpkg/openpkgcurrent

Also affects: Enterprise Linux 1.0

Patches

Patch: www.mandriva.com ↗Patch: www.mandriva.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-3wp4-6pwm-vcxj: Buffer overflow in the polymorphic opcode support in the Regular Expression Engine (regcomp↗2022-05-03
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CVEList
CVE-2007-5116: Buffer overflow in the polymorphic opcode support in the Regular Expression Engine (regcomp↗2007-11-07
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OSV
CVE-2007-5116: Buffer overflow in the polymorphic opcode support in the Regular Expression Engine (regcomp↗2007-11-07
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
Perl vulnerability↗2007-12-04
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Red Hat
perl regular expression UTF parsing errors↗2007-11-05
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Debian
CVE-2007-5116: perl - Buffer overflow in the polymorphic opcode support in the Regular Expression Engi...↗2007
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💬Community

3
Bugzilla
CVE-2007-5116 perl regular expression UTF parsing errors [f7]↗2007-11-12
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Bugzilla
CVE-2007-5116 perl regular expression UTF parsing errors [f8]↗2007-11-12
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Bugzilla
CVE-2007-5116 perl regular expression UTF parsing errors↗2007-10-08
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