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CVE-2008-1927: perl Resource Management Errors

CVSS: 5.0v2.0MediumModified
AliasesRHSA-2008:0522RHSA-2008:0532DEBIAN-CVE-2008-1927
Published 23-04-2008Last modified 07-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2008-1927 is a medium (CVSS 5.0) Resource Management Errors vulnerability in perl. EPSS estimates a 3.15% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 87.8% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
21/100
0100
Low · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
5.0/10
010
Medium · v2.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
3.15%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 1
RHSA-2010:0602

Timeline

  1. 23-04-2008
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 07-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

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.

CVSS metrics

1 score · 1 source · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

3.15%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

88%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 3.15% on 21-09-2026

21-09-202621-10-2026
EPSS score
3.15%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Redhat6 products
  • perl< 2:5.8.0-98.EL3 | < 3:5.8.5-36.el4_6.3 | < 4:5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 | < 4:5.8.8-6.el4s1_3
  • perl-CGI< 2:2.89-98.EL3
  • perl-CPAN< 2:1.61-98.EL3
  • perl-DB_File< 2:1.806-98.EL3
  • perl-debuginfo< 2:5.8.0-98.EL3 | < 3:5.8.5-36.el4_6.3 | < 4:5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 | < 4:5.8.8-6.el4s1_3
Debian1 product
  • perl< 5.8.8-7etch3 | < 5.10.0-1
Perl1 product

3 vendors · 8 products

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