DEBIAN-CVE-2015-8853

DEBIAN-CVE-2015-8853 PUBLISHED CVSS 7.5 HIGH

The (1) S_reghop3, (2) S_reghop4, and (3) S_reghopmaybe3 functions in regexec.c in Perl before 5.24.0 allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via crafted utf-8 data, as demonstrated by "a\x80."

Risk Scores

CVSS 3.0

7.5

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Debian:12	perl	0, 0, 0
Debian:13	perl	0, 0, 0
Debian:14	perl	0, 0, 0
Debian:11	perl	0, 0, 0

Timeline

May 25, 2016 CVE Published
Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-8853 advisory

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