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CVE-2015-8853

CVE-2015-8853

Published Date 2026-01-12
Product centos
Severity High (7.5)
Component perl
Affected Versions CentOS 7
Patched Versions perl-5.16.3-299_ol004.el7

CVE Details

OL CVE Issue Summary:

S_reghop3(), S_reghop4(), and S_reghopmaybe3() in regexec.c (before 5.24.0) allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via crafted utf-8 data, as demonstrated with the payload "a\x80".