DEBIAN-CVE-2007-5116

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CVE-2007-5116
Published: 07 Nov 2007, 23:46
Last modified:28 Apr 2026, 20:09

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
minimal
0/100
CVSS Score
No data
EPSS Score
No data
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

07 Nov 2007, 23:46
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
28 Apr 2026, 20:09
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

Buffer overflow in the polymorphic opcode support in the Regular Expression Engine (regcomp.c) in Perl 5.8 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code by switching from byte to Unicode (UTF) characters in a regular expression.

Affected Systems

  • debian•perl

    < 5.8.8-12 | < 5.8.8-12 | < 5.8.8-12 | < 5.8.8-12

References (1)