CVE-2007-5116
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.
- EPSS
- 4.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 91% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-119
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- larry_wall:perl
- mandrakesoft:mandrake_multi_network_firewall
- openpkg:openpkg
- redhat:enterprise_linux