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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Nov 7, 2007· Updated Apr 23, 2026

CVE-2007-5116

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.

Affected products

14
  • Larry Wall/Perl11 versions
    cpe:2.3:a:larry_wall:perl:5.8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 10 more
    • cpe:2.3:a:larry_wall:perl:5.8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:larry_wall:perl:5.8.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:larry_wall:perl:5.8.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:larry_wall:perl:5.8.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:larry_wall:perl:5.8.4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:larry_wall:perl:5.8.4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:larry_wall:perl:5.8.4.2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:larry_wall:perl:5.8.4.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:larry_wall:perl:5.8.4.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:larry_wall:perl:5.8.4.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:larry_wall:perl:5.8.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:mandrakesoft:mandrake_multi_network_firewall:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:openpkg:openpkg:current:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:1.0:*:application_stack:*:*:*:*:*

Patches

0

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