CVE-2007-5116

Buffer overflow in the polymorphic opcode support in the Regular Expression Engine (regcomp.c) in Perl 5.8 allows context-dependent attackers to execute…

published November 7, 2007

CVSS
—
EPSS
5%
Percentile
91.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.04830 · 91.9th percentile
Published
2007-11-07T20:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 07 NOV 20:00Z
    Buffer overflow in the polymorphic opcode support in the Regular Expression Engine (regcomp.c) in Perl 5.8 allows context-dependent attackers to execute…
    cvelistv5