CVE-2008-1927

EPSS 2.4%

perl - denial of service

Published: 4/24/2008Modified: 4/28/2026

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.

Affected packages (2)

References (1)