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VRDA-091028-001
Invalid and tainted utf-8 char crashes perl 5.10.1 in regexp evaluation
http://rt.perl.org/rt3//Public/Bug/Display.html?id=69973

Tracking down a reason for crashes of a perl process while processing certain obfuscated spam messages, it turns out that an utf-8 character with a large (and invalid) codepoint is causing a perl 5.10.1 crash while matching such string to a particular regular expression.




About This Analysis Information
Analysis Information Provider:
 		JPCERT/CC
 		First Published:
 		2009-10-28
Source Information Category:
 		Advisory, Alert
 		Last Updated:
 		2009-10-28




Affected Product Tags
lapt:/a:perl:perl     (Perl)
 


Vulnerability Analysis Results
[Information Source Reliability] [?]
Low [?]

Medium [?]
X High [?]
[Impact Level] [?]
Low [?]

X Low-Medium [?]
Medium-High [?]
High [?]
[Access Required] [?]
Physical [?]

Local [?]
Non-routed [?]
X Routed [?]
[Authentication] [?]
Privileged [?]

Standard [?]
Limited [?]
X None or Unnecessary [?]
[User Interaction Required] [?]
X Complex [?]

Simple [?]
None [?]
[Technical Difficulty] [?]
High [?]

Medium-High [?]
Low-Medium [?]
Low [?]
[Availability of Remediation] [?]
X Official Patch [?]

Official Workaround [?]
Unofficial Patch [?]
None [?]
[Incident Activity] [?]
None [?]

X Exploit or PoC [?]
Activity Observed [?]
Alternatives




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