Unscored severity · published Nov 7, 2007
CVE-2007-5116
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…
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CVSS
4.8%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)4.8% · higher than 92% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
EL
Enterprise Linux · Redhat
1.0 · source: NVD
MM
Mandrake Multi Network Firewall · Mandrakesoft
2.0 · source: NVD
OP
Openpkg · Openpkg
current · source: NVD
PE
Perl · Larry Wall
5.8.0; 5.8.1; 5.8.3; 5.8.4; 5.8.4.1; 5.8.4.2; +5 more · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-5116
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-5116
docs.info.apple.com
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307179
lists.apple.com
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Dec/msg00002.html
lists.vmware.com
http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2008/000002.html
marc.info
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=120352263023774&w=2
secunia.com
http://secunia.com/advisories/27479
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