Perl Regex Processing Bug May Let Users Execute Arbitrary Code
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SecurityTracker Alert ID: 1018899
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SecurityTracker URL: http://securitytracker.com/id?1018899
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CVE Reference: CVE-2007-5116
(Links to External Site)
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Date: Nov 6 2007
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Impact: Execution of arbitrary code via local system, Execution of arbitrary code via network, User access via local system, User access via network
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Version(s): 5.8
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Description: A vulnerability was reported in Perl. A local or remote user can execute arbitrary code on the target system.
A remote or local user may be able to supply a specially crafted regular expression to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
Tavis Ormandy and Will Drewry reported this vulnerability.
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Impact: A local or remote user can execute arbitrary code on the target system.
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Solution: No solution was available at the time of this entry.
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Cause: Input validation error
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Underlying OS: Linux (Any), UNIX (Any)
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Message History:
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Source Message Contents
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Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 21:42:00 -0500
Subject: Perl
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CVE-2007-5116
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