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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2015-8853: perl security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2015-8853: perl security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
05/25/2016
Created
09/26/2019
Added
09/25/2019
Modified
09/25/2019

Description

The (1) S_reghop3, (2) S_reghop4, and (3) S_reghopmaybe3 functions in regexec.c in Perl before 5.24.0 allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via crafted utf-8 data, as demonstrated by "a\x80."

Solution(s)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-perl
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-perl-core
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-perl-devel
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-perl-libs
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-perl-macros

References

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