Improper Input Validation Affecting perl package, versions <5.22.1-1
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
3.05% (91st
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN9-PERL-327710
- published 25 May 2016
- disclosed 25 May 2016
Introduced: 25 May 2016
CVE-2015-8853 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:9
perl
to version 5.22.1-1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream perl
package and not the perl
package as distributed by Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:9
relevant fixed versions and status.
The (1) S_reghop3, (2) S_reghop4, and (3) S_reghopmaybe3 functions in regexec.c in Perl before 5.24.0 allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via crafted utf-8 data, as demonstrated by "a\x80."
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-8853
- http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/22b433eff9a1ffa2454e18405a56650f07b385b5
- https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=123562
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/183592.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-75
- https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05240731
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/20/5
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/20/7
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1329106
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/86707
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2015-8853
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3625-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3625-2/