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Vulnerability record · CVE-2008-1927 · published 24 April 2008

CVE-2008-1927: Perl vulnerability

Perl · Perl

Double free vulnerability in Perl 5.8.8 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and crash) via a crafted regular expression containing UTF8 characters. NOTE: this issue might only be present on certain operating systems.

5.0 CVSS 2.0 Medium EPSS 3.2% · top 12.4% CWE-399 · CWE-399
5.0CVSS 2.0 base score
3.2%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days
NoNot in CISA KEV
1Affected product versions listed by NVD
80References
16 Jun 2026Last modified by NVD

Description

Double free vulnerability in Perl 5.8.8 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and crash) via a crafted regular expression containing UTF8 characters. NOTE: this issue might only be present on certain operating systems.

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected products

1 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.

References

LinkTags
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=454792
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Feb/msg00000.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00006.html
http://osvdb.org/44588
http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=48156
http://secunia.com/advisories/29948
http://secunia.com/advisories/30025
http://secunia.com/advisories/30326
http://secunia.com/advisories/30624
http://secunia.com/advisories/31208
http://secunia.com/advisories/31328
http://secunia.com/advisories/31467
http://secunia.com/advisories/31604
http://secunia.com/advisories/31687
http://secunia.com/advisories/33314
http://secunia.com/advisories/33937
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3438
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-317.htm
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-361.htm
http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0011
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1556
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200805-17.xml
http://www.ipcop.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=41
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:100
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0522.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0532.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/500210/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28928
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020253
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-700-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-700-2
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0013.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2265/references
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2361
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2424
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0422
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41996
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10579
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00601.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00607.html

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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2008-1927), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-10-10). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.