CVE-2008-1927
"Perl 5 Double Free Vulnerability"
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.
INFO
Published Date :
April 24, 2008, 5:05 a.m.
Last Modified :
April 9, 2025, 12:30 a.m.
Source :
[email protected]
Remotely Exploitable :
Yes !
Impact Score :
2.9
Exploitability Score :
10.0
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The following list is the news that have been mention
CVE-2008-1927 vulnerability anywhere in the article.
The following table lists the changes that have been made to the
CVE-2008-1927 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 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=454792 Added Reference http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Feb/msg00000.html Added Reference http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00006.html Added Reference http://osvdb.org/44588 Added Reference http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=48156 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/29948 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/30025 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/30326 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/30624 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/31208 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/31328 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/31467 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/31604 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/31687 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/33314 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/33937 Added Reference http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3438 Added Reference http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-317.htm Added Reference http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-361.htm Added Reference http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0011 Added Reference http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1556 Added Reference http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200805-17.xml Added Reference http://www.ipcop.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=41 Added Reference http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:100 Added Reference http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0522.html Added Reference http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0532.html Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/500210/100/0/threaded Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28928 Added Reference http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020253 Added Reference http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-700-1 Added Reference http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-700-2 Added Reference http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0013.html Added Reference http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2265/references Added Reference http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2361 Added Reference http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2424 Added Reference http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0422 Added Reference https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41996 Added Reference https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10579 Added Reference https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00601.html Added Reference https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00607.html -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
May. 14, 2024
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CVE Modified by [email protected]
Oct. 11, 2018
Action Type Old Value New Value Removed Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/500210/100/0/threaded [No Types Assigned] Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/500210/100/0/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:10579 [No Types Assigned] Added Reference https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10579 [No Types Assigned] -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Aug. 08, 2017
Action Type Old Value New Value Removed Reference http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/41996 [No Types Assigned] Added Reference https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41996 [No Types Assigned] -
Initial Analysis by [email protected]
Apr. 24, 2008
Action Type Old Value New Value
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration
While CVE identifies
specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or
weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2008-1927 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-2008-1927
weaknesses.
Exploit Prediction
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.
3.96 }} -8.50%
score
0.87287
percentile