SB2015091601 - Denial of service in Perl
Published: September 16, 2015
Security Bulletin ID
SB2015091601
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Adjecent network
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Infinite loop (CVE-ID: CVE-2015-8853)
The vulnerability allows an adjacent attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.The weakness exists in the (1) S_reghop3, (2) S_reghop4, and (3) S_reghopmaybe3 functions in regexec.c due to infinite loop. An adjacent attacker can submit specially crafted utf-8 data, as demonstrated by "ax80", and cause the service to crash.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.