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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2010-1158: Perl: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2010-1158: Perl: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
04/20/2010
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
10/30/2017

Description

Integer overflow in the regular expression engine in Perl 5.8.x allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption and application crash) by matching a crafted regular expression against a long string.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-dev-lang-perl

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