(Red Hat Issues Fix) Perl UTF8 Regex Processing Double Free Bug May Let Users Execute Arbitrary Code
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SecurityTracker Alert ID: 1020254 |
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SecurityTracker URL: https://securitytracker.com/id/1020254
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CVE Reference:
CVE-2008-1927
(Links to External Site)
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Date: Jun 12 2008
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Impact:
Execution of arbitrary code via local system, Execution of arbitrary code via network, User access via local system, User access via network
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Fix Available: Yes Vendor Confirmed: Yes
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Version(s): 5.8.8
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Description:
A vulnerability was reported in Perl. A user may be able to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
A user can supply a specially crafted regular expression containing UTF8 characters to trigger a double free and execute arbitrary code on the target system with the privileges of the process running perl.
steev at hot.pl reported this vulnerability.
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Impact:
A user may be able to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
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Solution:
Red Hat has released a fix.
The Red Hat advisory is available at:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0522.html
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Cause:
State error
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Underlying OS: Linux (Red Hat Enterprise)
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Underlying OS Comments: 3, 4, 5
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Message History:
This archive entry is a follow-up to the message listed below.
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Source Message Contents
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Subject: [RHSA-2008:0522-01] Important: perl security update
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