CVE-2007-5116
perl Regular Expression Engine Buffer Overflow
Description
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.
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Published Date :
Nov. 7, 2007, 11:46 p.m.
Last Modified :
Nov. 21, 2024, 12:37 a.m.
Source :
[email protected]
Remotely Exploitable :
Yes !
Impact Score :
6.4
Exploitability Score :
10.0
Affected Products
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vulnerability.
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CVE-2007-5116.
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The following list is the news that have been mention
CVE-2007-5116 vulnerability anywhere in the article.
The following table lists the changes that have been made to the
CVE-2007-5116 vulnerability over time.
Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.
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CVE Modified by af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Nov. 21, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference ftp://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/README Added Reference http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307179 Added Reference http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Dec/msg00002.html Added Reference http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2008/000002.html Added Reference http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=120352263023774&w=2 Added Reference http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=120352263023774&w=2 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/27479 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/27515 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/27531 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/27546 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/27548 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/27570 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/27613 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/27756 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/27936 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/28167 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/28368 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/28387 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/28993 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/29074 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/31208 Added Reference http://securitytracker.com/id?1018899 Added Reference http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-31524-1 Added Reference http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-231524-1 Added Reference http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-77-1018985.1-1 Added Reference http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-014.htm Added Reference http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1400 Added Reference http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200711-28.xml Added Reference http://www.ipcop.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=41 Added Reference http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:207 Added Reference http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_24_sr.html Added Reference http://www.openpkg.com/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2007.023.html Added Reference http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0966.html Added Reference http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1011.html Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483563/100/0/threaded Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483584/100/0/threaded Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/485936/100/0/threaded Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/486859/100/0/threaded Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26350 Added Reference http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-552-1 Added Reference http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-352A.html Added Reference http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0001.html Added Reference http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3724 Added Reference http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4238 Added Reference http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4255 Added Reference http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0064 Added Reference http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0641 Added Reference http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ10220 Added Reference http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ10244 Added Reference https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=323571 Added Reference https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=378131 Added Reference https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38270 Added Reference https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1813 Added Reference https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10669 -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
May. 14, 2024
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CVE Modified by [email protected]
Oct. 15, 2018
Action Type Old Value New Value Removed Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/486859/100/0/threaded [No Types Assigned] Removed Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/483584/100/0/threaded [No Types Assigned] Removed Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/485936/100/0/threaded [No Types Assigned] Removed Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/483563/100/0/threaded [No Types Assigned] Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/486859/100/0/threaded [No Types Assigned] Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/485936/100/0/threaded [No Types Assigned] Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483584/100/0/threaded [No Types Assigned] Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483563/100/0/threaded [No Types Assigned] -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Sep. 29, 2017
Action Type Old Value New Value Removed Reference http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10669 [No Types Assigned] Added Reference https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10669 [No Types Assigned] -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Jul. 29, 2017
Action Type Old Value New Value Removed Reference http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/38270 [No Types Assigned] Added Reference https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38270 [No Types Assigned] -
Initial Analysis by [email protected]
Nov. 09, 2007
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CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration
While CVE identifies
specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or
weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2007-5116 is
associated with the following CWEs:
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification
(CAPEC)
stores attack patterns, which are descriptions of the common attributes and
approaches employed by adversaries to exploit the CVE-2007-5116
weaknesses.
Exploit Prediction
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.
4.18 }} 0.39%
score
0.92121
percentile