Description
Integer underflow in regcomp.c in Perl before 5.20, as used in Apple OS X before 10.10.5 and other products, allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a long digit string associated with an invalid backreference within a regular expression.
Published: 2015-08-16
Score: 7.5 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2013-7186 Integer underflow in regcomp.c in Perl before 5.20, as used in Apple OS X before 10.10.5 and other products, allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a long digit string associated with an invalid backreference within a regular expression.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-2916-1 Perl vulnerabilities
History

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T18:09:16.951Z

Reserved: 2015-01-27T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2013-7422

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2015-08-16T23:59:00.097

Modified: 2026-05-06T22:30:45.220

Link: CVE-2013-7422

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2015-01-23T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2013-7422 - Bugzilla

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