suse · CVE-2007-5116

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Priority: high Published: 2021-05-30 12:40:14 UTC Updated: 2026-04-18 20:31:40 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2007-5116 severity important: SUSE including 37 source package names (perl-32bit-5.10.0-64.47.8, perl-32bit-5.10.0-64.55.1, …), 37 product×package rows across 9 product lines (SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2, … (9 product lines)): Fixed 37.

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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