CVE-2008-1927
perl - denial of service
EPSS 2.4%
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.
How to fix CVE-2008-1927
To remediate CVE-2008-1927, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Debian/perl—upgrade to 5.10.0-1 or later
- Debian/perl—upgrade to 5.8.8-7etch3 or later
Is CVE-2008-1927 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 2.4%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 5.10.0-1
- from 0, < 5.8.8-7etch3