FKIE_CVE-2008-1927
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2008-04-24 05:05 - Updated: 2026-06-16 22:52
Severity
Summary
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.
References
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