Re: CVE request:Perl bug #48156

["Steven M. Christey" <coley () linus mitre org>]

removing vendor-sec just in case, since oss-security is archived.

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Name: CVE-2008-1927
Status: Candidate
URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1927
Reference: MISC:http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=48156
Reference: CONFIRM:http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=454792

Double free vulnerability in Perl 5.8.8 allows context-dependent
attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and crash)
via a crafted regular expression containing UTF8 characters.  NOTE:
this issue might only be present on certain operating systems.