Bug 547656 (CVE-2009-3626)

Summary:	CVE-2009-3626 perl: regexp matcher crash on invalid UTF-8 characters
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Tomas Hoger <thoger>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	cturner, cweyl, jlieskov, kasal, lkundrak, mjc, mmaslano, qe-baseos-apps, rc040203, robin.norwood
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2009-3626
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Bug Depends On:	547657, 547660
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Description Tomas Hoger 2009-12-15 10:42:53 UTC

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2009-3626 to the following vulnerability:

Perl 5.10.1 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service
(application crash) via a UTF-8 character with a large, invalid codepoint,
which is not properly handled during a regular-expression match. 

References:
http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=69973
https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=6225 
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/10/23/8
http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/0abd0d78a73da1c4d13b1c700526b7e5d03b32d4