Bug 443928 (CVE-2008-1927)

Summary: CVE-2008-1927 perl: heap corruption by regular expressions with utf8 characters
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Tomas Hoger <thoger>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact:
Severity: high Docs Contact:
Priority: high    
Version: unspecifiedCC: kasal, kreilly, mmaslano, rc040203, robin.norwood, tcallawa
Target Milestone: ---Keywords: Security
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
URL: http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-1927
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Last Closed: 2008-06-17 16:20:36 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Depends On: 449319, 449320, 449321, 449322, 449323, 449324, 466966, 466967    
Bug Blocks: 466968    
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Patch from DSA-1556-1
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Test case extracted from Debian patch
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Test case from Debian bug #454792 none

Description Tomas Hoger 2008-04-24 07:10:09 UTC
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2008-1927 to the following vulnerability:

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.

References:
http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=48156
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=454792

Comment 2 Tomas Hoger 2008-04-25 07:02:43 UTC
Created attachment 303746 [details]
Test case extracted from Debian patch

Comment 3 Tomas Hoger 2008-04-25 07:42:10 UTC
Created attachment 303751 [details]
Test case from Debian bug #454792

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2008-04-29 20:58:48 UTC
perl-5.8.8-39.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2008-04-29 20:59:25 UTC
perl-5.8.8-29.fc7 has been pushed to the Fedora 7 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 10 Johnny Hughes 2008-05-21 10:25:43 UTC
it seems that segfaults can be produced in RHEL-3, RHEL-4, and RHEL-5 with test
case attachment in #2.

Is this issue being addressed for RHEL?

Comment 15 errata-xmlrpc 2010-08-04 21:32:46 UTC
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Certificate System 7.3

Via RHSA-2010:0602 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0602.html