CVE-2008-1927

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-399 Resource Management Errors
Publication date:
24/04/2008
Last modified:
09/04/2025

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.

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.8.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*


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