CVE-2007-5116

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-5116
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2007-5116.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2007-5116
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Published
2007-11-07T23:46:00Z
Modified
2025-08-09T20:01:25Z
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

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Affected packages