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CVE-2008-1927

Published: Apr 24, 2008 | Modified: Apr 09, 2025
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
LOW
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-1927
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/399.html

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.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
PerlPerl5.8.8 (including)5.8.8 (including)
Red Hat Certificate System 7.3RedHatant-0:1.6.5-1jpp_1rh*
Red Hat Certificate System 7.3RedHatavalon-logkit-0:1.2-2jpp_4rh*
Red Hat Certificate System 7.3RedHataxis-0:1.2.1-1jpp_3rh*
Red Hat Certificate System 7.3RedHatclasspathx-jaf-0:1.0-2jpp_6rh*
Red Hat Certificate System 7.3RedHatclasspathx-mail-0:1.1.1-2jpp_8rh*
Red Hat Certificate System 7.3RedHatgeronimo-specs-0:1.0-0.M4.1jpp_10rh*
Red Hat Certificate System 7.3RedHatjakarta-commons-modeler-0:2.0-3jpp_2rh*
Red Hat Certificate System 7.3RedHatlog4j-0:1.2.12-1jpp_1rh*
Red Hat Certificate System 7.3RedHatmx4j-1:3.0.1-1jpp_4rh*
Red Hat Certificate System 7.3RedHatpcsc-lite-0:1.3.3-3.el4*
Red Hat Certificate System 7.3RedHatrhpki-ca-0:7.3.0-20.el4*
Red Hat Certificate System 7.3RedHatrhpki-java-tools-0:7.3.0-10.el4*
Red Hat Certificate System 7.3RedHatrhpki-kra-0:7.3.0-14.el4*
Red Hat Certificate System 7.3RedHatrhpki-manage-0:7.3.0-19.el4*
Red Hat Certificate System 7.3RedHatrhpki-native-tools-0:7.3.0-6.el4*
Red Hat Certificate System 7.3RedHatrhpki-ocsp-0:7.3.0-13.el4*
Red Hat Certificate System 7.3RedHatrhpki-tks-0:7.3.0-13.el4*
Red Hat Certificate System 7.3RedHattomcat5-0:5.5.23-0jpp_4rh.16*
Red Hat Certificate System 7.3RedHatxerces-j2-0:2.7.1-1jpp_1rh*
Red Hat Certificate System 7.3RedHatxml-commons-0:1.3.02-2jpp_1rh*
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3RedHatperl-2:5.8.0-98.EL3*
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4RedHatperl-3:5.8.5-36.el4_6.3*
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5RedHatperl-4:5.8.8-10.el5_2.3*
Red Hat Web Application Stack for RHEL 4RedHatperl-4:5.8.8-6.el4s1_3*
PerlUbuntudapper*
PerlUbuntufeisty*
PerlUbuntugutsy*
PerlUbuntuhardy*

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