Vulnerabilities > Larry Wall > Perl > 5.8.4.4

DATE CVE VULNERABILITY TITLE RISK
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.
local
low complexity
larry-wall
7.2