Bug 547656 (CVE-2009-3626) - CVE-2009-3626 perl: regexp matcher crash on invalid UTF-8 characters
Summary: CVE-2009-3626 perl: regexp matcher crash on invalid UTF-8 characters
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2009-3626
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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URL: http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/det...
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Depends On: 547657 547660
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-12-15 10:42 UTC by Tomas Hoger
Modified: 2021-10-19 21:46 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2021-10-19 21:46:52 UTC
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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
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