CVE-2008-1927

MEDIUM 5.0CVE-2008-1927 · Published 24/04/2008 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2008-1927 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.0) vulnerability affecting perl (perl).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 3.2%, higher than 88.0% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
perl perl	`= 5.8.8`	No fix yet

Description

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.

References

bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi
lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Feb/msg00000.html
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00006.html
osvdb.org/44588
rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html
secunia.com/advisories/29948
secunia.com/advisories/30025
secunia.com/advisories/30326
secunia.com/advisories/30624
secunia.com/advisories/31208
secunia.com/advisories/31328
secunia.com/advisories/31467
secunia.com/advisories/31604
secunia.com/advisories/31687
secunia.com/advisories/33314
secunia.com/advisories/33937

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