CVE-2010-1158 Information

Description

Integer overflow in the regular expression engine in Perl 5.8.x allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption and application crash) by matching a crafted regular expression against a long string.

Reference

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=313565 http://perldoc.perl.org/perl5100delta.html http://secunia.com/advisories/55314 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/04/08/9 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/04/14/3 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=580605