National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-3626

Overview

Perl 5.10.1 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a UTF-8 character with a large, invalid codepoint, which is not properly handled during a regular-expression match.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (10/30/2009)

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of perl as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, or 5.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2009-3023

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3023

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/0abd0d78a73da1c4d13b1c700526b7e5d03b32d4

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/0abd0d78a73da1c4d13b1c700526b7e5d03b32d4

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=6225

Hyperlink:https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=6225

External Source: XF

Name: perl-utf8-expressions-dos(53939)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/53939

External Source: BID

Name: 36812

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36812

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 59283

Hyperlink:http://www.osvdb.org/59283

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20091023 CVE-2009-3626 assigment notification - Perl - perl-5.10.1

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/10/23/8

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1023077

Hyperlink:http://securitytracker.com/id?1023077

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 37144

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/37144

External Source: MISC

Name: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Attachment/617489/295383/

Hyperlink:http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Attachment/617489/295383/

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=69973

Hyperlink:http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=69973