VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2010-1158

CVSS score5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability2.04%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2010-04-20
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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.

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