CVE-2008-1927

NameCVE-2008-1927
DescriptionDouble 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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDSA-1556-2
Debian Bugs454792

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
perl (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)5.20.2-3+deb8u14fixed
stretch (security)5.24.1-3+deb9u5fixed
stretch (lts), stretch5.24.1-3+deb9u8fixed
buster, buster (lts)5.28.1-6+deb10u2fixed
bullseye5.32.1-4+deb11u3fixed
bullseye (security)5.32.1-4+deb11u4fixed
bookworm5.36.0-7+deb12u1fixed
sid, trixie5.40.0-7fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
perlsourceetch5.8.8-7etch3DSA-1556-2
perlsource(unstable)5.10.0-1454792
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