{"action":"Upgrade perl to 5.8.8-12 or later.","affected":[{"fixed":"5.8.8-12","introduced":"0"}],"component":"perl","cve_ids":[],"ecosystem":"Debian","ecosystem_qualifier":"Debian:14","exploited":false,"fixed_versions":["5.8.8-12"],"id":"tcs_01M5N8WMBC00FARB9703KG86HG","modified_at":"2026-10-21T17:47:36.613813750Z","published_at":"2007-11-07T23:46:00Z","references":["https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2007-5116","https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2007-5116"],"severity":{"label":"unknown"},"sources":[{"source":"osv","source_id":"DEBIAN-CVE-2007-5116#Debian:14/perl","url":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2007-5116"}],"summary":"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"}