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Publisher Name:          OpenPKG GmbH
Publisher Home:          http://openpkg.com/

Advisory Id (public):    OpenPKG-SA-2007.023
Advisory Type:           OpenPKG Security Advisory (SA)
Advisory Directory:      http://openpkg.com/go/OpenPKG-SA
Advisory Document:       http://openpkg.com/go/OpenPKG-SA-2007.023
Advisory Published:      2007-11-08 08:52 UTC

Issue Id (internal):     OpenPKG-SI-20071108.01
Issue First Created:     2007-11-08
Issue Last Modified:     2007-11-08
Issue Revision:          01
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Subject Name:            perl
Subject Summary:         Programming Language
Subject Home:            http://www.perl.com/
Subject Versions:        5.* <= 5.8.8

Vulnerability Id:        CVE-2007-5116
Vulnerability Scope:     global (not OpenPKG specific)

Attack Feasibility:      run-time
Attack Vector:           remote network
Attack Impact:           arbitrary code execution

Description:
    Will Drewry and Tavis Ormandy of the Google Security Team have
    discovered a UTF-8 related heap overflow in the regular expression
    compiler of the Perl [0] programming language, probably allowing
    attackers to execute arbitrary code by compiling specially crafted
    regular expressions. The bug manifests in a possible buffer overflow
    in the polymorphic "opcode" support code, caused by ASCII regular
    expressions that really are Unicode regular expressions.

References:
    [0] http://www.perl.com/
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Primary Package Name:    perl
Primary Package Home:    http://openpkg.org/go/package/perl

Corrected Distribution:  Corrected Branch: Corrected Package:
OpenPKG Community        CURRENT           perl-5.8.8-20071108
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