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TITLE:
Perl UTF-8 Denial of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA37144

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/37144/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Perl, which can be exploited by
malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an error when processing strings
containing certain UTF-8 characters within regular expressions, which
can be exploited to crash the interpreter.

The vulnerability is reported in version 5.10.1. Other versions may
also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Fixed in the GIT repository.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Mark Martinec

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://rt.perl.org/rt3//Public/Bug/Display.html?id=69973

http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/0abd0d78a73da1c4d13b1c700526b7e5d03b32d4

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