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CVE-2007-5116

Date: November 7, 2007

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.

Severity Score

7.3

Related Resources (56)

Url: http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200711-28.xml

Url: http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-231524-1

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2007-5116

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1400

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4255

Url: ftp://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/README

Url: http://securitytracker.com/id?1018899

Url: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=323571

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/27515

Url: http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ10220

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/27756

Url: http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Dec/msg00002.html

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/28167

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/485936/100/0/threaded

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26350

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/27479

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/28368

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0064

Url: http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0001.html

Url: http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-014.htm

Url: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1011.html

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/29074

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/27570

Url: http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2008/000002.html

Url: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307179

Url: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=378131

Url: http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-352A.html

Url: http://www.openpkg.com/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2007.023.html

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-552-1

Url: http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=120352263023774&w=2

Url: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0966.html

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483563/100/0/threaded

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4238

Url: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38270

Url: http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:207

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-5116

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/27936

Url: https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1813

Url: http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ10244

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/31208

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0641

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/27531

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/27613

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/28387

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/486859/100/0/threaded

Url: http://www.ipcop.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=41

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3724

Url: http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-77-1018985.1-1

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/27548

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483584/100/0/threaded

Url: http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-31524-1

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/28993

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/27546

Url: https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10669

Url: http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_24_sr.html

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2007-5116

Severity Score

7.3

Weakness Type (CWE)

Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CWE-119

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	7.3
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	LOW
Integrity (I):	LOW
Availability (A):	LOW

CVSS v2

Base Score:	7.5
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	PARTIAL
Integrity (I):	PARTIAL
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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