| 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, 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) | buster | 5.28.1-6+deb10u1 | fixed |
| bullseye | 5.32.1-4+deb11u3 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 5.32.1-4+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 5.36.0-7+deb12u1 | fixed |
| trixie | 5.38.2-3 | fixed |
| sid | 5.38.2-3.2 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
http://public.activestate.com/cgi-bin/perlbrowse/30647