Description

Double free vulnerability in Perl 5.8.8 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and crash) via a crafted regular expression containing UTF8 characters. NOTE: this issue might only be present on certain operating systems.

Remediation

References

CVE-2008-1927

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Severity

Medium

Classification

CVE-2008-1927

Tags

Missing Update Known Vulnerabilities