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CVE-2008-1927

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.0 Published: 2008-04-24 Modified: 2026-06-16

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.

Affected Platforms

Perl Perl

Weakness Type

CWE-399

References