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Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:29:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
To: Jonathan Smith <smithj@...ethemallocs.com>
cc: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>,
        Florian Weimer <fw@...eb.enyo.de>, oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE request:Perl bug #48156


removing vendor-sec just in case, since oss-security is archived.

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Name: CVE-2008-1927
Status: Candidate
URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1927
Reference: MISC:http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=48156
Reference: CONFIRM:http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=454792

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.


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