CVE-2009-3626

Publication date 29 October 2009

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Perl 5.10.1 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a UTF-8 character with a large, invalid codepoint, which is not properly handled during a regular-expression match.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
perl 9.04 jaunty
Not affected
8.10 intrepid
Not affected
8.04 LTS hardy
Not affected
6.06 LTS dapper
Not affected

Notes

kees

issue is in 5.10.1 and later