CVE-2007-5116 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2007-5116

Buffer overflow in the polymorphic opcode support in the Regular...

Vulnerability 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

perl, mandrake multi network firewall, openpkg, enterprise linux
Vulnerable Versions:
5.8.0, 5.8.1, 5.8.3, 5.8.4, 5.8.4.1, 5.8.4.2, 5.8.4.2.3, 5.8.4.3, 5.8.4.4, 5.8.4.5, 5.8.6, 2.0, current, 1.0

Timeline

Official Publish: November 7th, 2007
Last Modified: August 7th, 2024
Added to House: July 18th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.