Debian/perl: unknown

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 Unicod

Action: Upgrade perl to 5.8.8-12 or later.

Affected

Fixed versions

Sources

• osv: DEBIAN-CVE-2007-5116#Debian:14/perl
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2007-5116

published 2007-11-07T23:46:00Z · modified 2026-10-21T17:47:36.613813750Z · JSON