CVE-2015-8853

Publication date

2016-05-25 15:00:00

Family

debian

State

PUBLISHED

Description

The (1) S_reghop3, (2) S_reghop4, and (3) S_reghopmaybe3 functions in regexec.c in Perl before 5.24.0 allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via crafted utf-8 data, as demonstrated by "ax80."