CVE-2007-5116

Publication date 7 November 2007

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

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.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
perl 7.10 gutsy
Fixed 5.8.8-7ubuntu3.1
7.04 feisty
Fixed 5.8.8-7ubuntu0.1
6.10 edgy
Fixed 5.8.8-6ubuntu0.1
6.06 LTS dapper
Fixed 5.8.7-10ubuntu1.1

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-552-1
    • Perl vulnerability
    • 4 December 2007

Other references