CVE-2013-7422

Publication date 16 August 2015

Last updated 24 July 2024

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.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
perl	15.10 wily	Not affected
	15.04 vivid	Not affected
	14.10 utopic	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 5.18.2-2ubuntu1.1
	12.04 LTS precise	Fixed 5.14.2-6ubuntu2.5
	10.04 LTS lucid	Ignored end of life

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
perl	Upstream: http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/0c2990d652e985784f095bba4bc356481a66aa06

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-2916-1
Perl vulnerabilities
2 March 2016

Other references

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-7422