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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2010-1158

Original release date:04/20/2010

Last revised:06/07/2010

Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

Integer overflow in the regular expression engine in Perl 5.8.x allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption and application crash) by matching a crafted regular expression against a long string.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS v2 Base Score:5.0 (MEDIUM) (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) (legend)

Impact Subscore: 2.9

Exploitability Subscore: 10.0

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Access Vector: Network exploitable

Access Complexity: Low

Authentication: Not required to exploit

Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown

Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (04/22/2010)

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact. The risks associated with fixing this bug are greater than the low severity security risk. We therefore currently have no plans to fix this flaw in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, or 5.

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External Source: MISC

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=580605

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=580605

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20100414 Re: CVE Request -- perl v5.8.* -- stack overflow by processing certain regex (Gentoo BTS#313565 / RH BZ#580605)

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/04/14/3

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20100408 CVE Request -- perl v5.8.* -- stack overflow by processing certain regex (Gentoo BTS#313565 / RH BZ#580605)

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/04/08/9

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://perldoc.perl.org/perl5100delta.html

Hyperlink:http://perldoc.perl.org/perl5100delta.html