Security Advisory

CVE-2007-5116

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2007-11-07 20:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-07 15:17:28

Assigner mitre

CVSS score not scored

State PUBLISHED

Description

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.

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