CVE-2007-5116

Name	CVE-2007-5116
Description	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.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
References	DSA-1400-1, DTSA-78-1
Debian Bugs	450794

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
perl (PTS)	bullseye	5.32.1-4+deb11u3	fixed
	bullseye (security)	5.32.1-4+deb11u4	fixed
	bookworm	5.36.0-7+deb12u3	fixed
	bookworm (security)	5.36.0-7+deb12u2	fixed
	forky, sid, trixie	5.40.1-6	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
perl	source	sarge	5.8.4-8sarge6		DSA-1400-1
perl	source	etch	5.8.8-7etch1		DSA-1400-1
perl	source	lenny	5.8.8-11.1+lenny1		DTSA-78-1
perl	source	(unstable)	5.8.8-12	medium		450794

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