Vulnerabilities > Larry Wall > Perl > 5.8.4.4
DATE | CVE | VULNERABILITY TITLE | RISK |
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2007-11-07 | CVE-2007-5116 | Improper Restriction of Operations Within the Bounds of A Memory Buffer vulnerability in multiple products 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 Unicode (UTF) characters in a regular expression. | 7.5 |
2005-12-16 | CVE-2005-4278 | Packages Insecure RUNPATH vulnerability in Gentoo Linux Untrusted search path vulnerability in Perl before 5.8.7-r1 on Gentoo Linux allows local users in the portage group to gain privileges via a malicious shared object in the Portage temporary build directory, which is part of the RUNPATH. | 7.2 |