debian · CVE-2007-5116

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Priority: medium Published: Updated: Sun, 14 Jun 2026 13:18:36 GMT

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Tracker summary

CVE-2007-5116 medium priority: Debian including 1 source packages (perl), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5.

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.

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