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Perl UTF-8 Regular Expression Processing DoS Vulnerability (Windows)
Information
Severity
Severity
Medium
Family
Family
Denial of Service
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
5.0
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Solution Type
Solution Type
Vendor Patch
Created
Created
14 years ago
Modified
Modified
5 years ago
Summary
The host is installed with Perl and is prone to Denial of Service Vulnerability.
Insight
Insight
An error occurs in Perl while matching an utf-8 character with large or invalid codepoint with a particular regular expression.
Affected Software
Affected Software
Perl version 5.10.1 on Windows.
Solution
Solution
Apply the patch from the referenced link or update to a version including this patch.