Upstream information
Description
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.NVD CVSS v2 Base Score: 5.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Novell/SUSE information
Novell Bugzilla entry: 381901 SUSE Security Advisories:- SUSE-SR:2008:017, published Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:00:00 +0000
