vulnerability

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

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
May 25, 2016
Added
Aug 16, 2019
Modified
Apr 14, 2025

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_sp5-upgrade-perlhuawei-euleros-2_0_sp5-upgrade-perl-corehuawei-euleros-2_0_sp5-upgrade-perl-develhuawei-euleros-2_0_sp5-upgrade-perl-libshuawei-euleros-2_0_sp5-upgrade-perl-macros
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