Security Advisory
CVE-2015-8853
7.5
HIGH
Vulnerability Description
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."
Published Date
May 25, 2016
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory