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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.
Max CVSS
7.5
EPSS Score
3.35%
Published
2007-11-07
Updated
2018-10-15
Untrusted search path vulnerability in Perl before 5.8.7-r1 on Gentoo Linux allows local users in the portage group to gain privileges via a malicious shared object in the Portage temporary build directory, which is part of the RUNPATH.
Max CVSS
7.2
EPSS Score
0.06%
Published
2005-12-16
Updated
2013-10-24
Buffer overflow in the PerlIO implementation in Perl 5.8.0, when installed with setuid support (sperl), allows local users to execute arbitrary code by setting the PERLIO_DEBUG variable and executing a Perl script whose full pathname contains a long directory tree.
Max CVSS
2.1
EPSS Score
0.04%
Published
2005-02-07
Updated
2018-08-13
3 vulnerabilities found