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- Author: voroskoi
- Vulnerable: 5.8.8-4
- Unaffected: 5.8.8-5sayshell1
Tavis Ormandy and Will Drewry have reported a vulnerability in Perl, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system. The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the processing of regular expressions containing Unicode data. This can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow via a specially crafted regular expression causing a runtime switch to the Unicode character scheme.
- Bug Tracker URL: http://bugs.frugalware.org/task/2568