CVE-2010-4777 Information

Description

The Perl_reg_numbered_buff_fetch function in Perl 5.10.0 5.12.0 5.14.0 and other versions when running with debugging enabled allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and application exit) via crafted input that is not properly handled when using certain regular expressions as demonstrated by causing SpamAssassin and OCSInventory to crash.

Reference

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=628836 http://forums.ocsinventory-ng.org/viewtopic.php?id=7215 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-05/msg00005.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2011-05/msg00025.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=694166 https://listi.jpberlin.de/pipermail/postfixbuch-users/2011-February/055885.html https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=76538