Vulnerability Name:

CVE-2009-3626 (CCN-53939)

Assigned:2009-10-25
Published:2009-10-25
Updated:2017-08-17
Summary:Perl 5.10.1 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a UTF-8 character with a large, invalid codepoint, which is not properly handled during a regular-expression match.
CVSS v3 Severity:5.3 Medium (CCN CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)
Exploitability Metrics:Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope:Scope (S): Unchanged
Impact Metrics:Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availibility (A): Low
CVSS v2 Severity:5.0 Medium (CVSS v2 Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
3.8 Low (Temporal CVSS v2 Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P/E:U/RL:TF/RC:C)
Exploitability Metrics:Access Vector (AV): Network
Access Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Impact Metrics:Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availibility (A): Partial
5.0 Medium (CCN CVSS v2 Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
3.8 Low (CCN Temporal CVSS v2 Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P/E:U/RL:TF/RC:C)
Exploitability Metrics:Access Vector (AV): Network
Access Complexity (AC): Low
Athentication (Au): None
Impact Metrics:Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availibility (A): Partial
Vulnerability Type:CWE-Other
Vulnerability Consequences:Denial of Service
References:Source: CCN
Type: Active State Programmer Network
ActiveState announces ActivePerl 5.10.1 build 1007 and ActivePerl 5.8.9 build 827

Source: MITRE
Type: CNA
CVE-2009-3626

Source: CONFIRM
Type: Patch
http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/0abd0d78a73da1c4d13b1c700526b7e5d03b32d4

Source: CCN
Type: perl5 GIT Repository
disable non-unicode case insensitive trie matching

Source: CCN
Type: perlbug #69973
Invalid and tainted utf-8 char crashes perl 5.10.1 in regexp evaluation

Source: CONFIRM
Type: UNKNOWN
http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=69973

Source: MISC
Type: UNKNOWN
http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Attachment/617489/295383/

Source: CCN
Type: SA37144
Perl UTF-8 Denial of Service Vulnerability

Source: SECUNIA
Type: Vendor Advisory
37144

Source: CCN
Type: SA38558
ActivePerl UTF-8 Denial of Service Vulnerability

Source: CCN
Type: SECTRACK ID: 1023077
Perl UTF-8 Regex Processing Bug Lets Users Deny Service

Source: SECTRACK
Type: UNKNOWN
1023077

Source: MLIST
Type: UNKNOWN
[oss-security] 20091023 CVE-2009-3626 assigment notification - Perl - perl-5.10.1

Source: OSVDB
Type: UNKNOWN
59283

Source: CCN
Type: OSVDB ID: 59283
Perl Interpreter RegEx UTF-8 Character Handling DoS

Source: CCN
Type: OSVDB ID: 62447
ActivePerl RegEx UTF-8 Character Handling DoS

Source: BID
Type: UNKNOWN
36812

Source: CCN
Type: BID-36812
Perl UTF-8 Regular Expression Processing Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability

Source: VUPEN
Type: Patch, Vendor Advisory
ADV-2009-3023

Source: XF
Type: UNKNOWN
perl-utf8-expressions-dos(53939)

Source: XF
Type: UNKNOWN
perl-utf8-expressions-dos(53939)

Source: CONFIRM
Type: UNKNOWN
https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=6225

Vulnerable Configuration:Configuration 1:
  • cpe:/a:perl:perl:5.10.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

  • Configuration CCN 1:
  • cpe:/a:activestate:activeperl:5.6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • OR cpe:/a:activestate:activeperl:5.8.8.817:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • OR cpe:/a:activestate:activeperl:5.6.1.629:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • OR cpe:/a:activestate:activeperl:5.6.1.630:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • OR cpe:/a:activestate:activeperl:5.6.1.635:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • OR cpe:/a:activestate:activeperl:5.6.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • OR cpe:/a:activestate:activeperl:5.6.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • OR cpe:/a:activestate:activeperl:5.7.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • OR cpe:/a:activestate:activeperl:5.7.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • OR cpe:/a:activestate:activeperl:5.7.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • OR cpe:/a:activestate:activeperl:5.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • OR cpe:/a:activestate:activeperl:5.8.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • OR cpe:/a:activestate:activeperl:5.8.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • OR cpe:/a:activestate:activeperl:5.8.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • OR cpe:/a:activestate:activeperl:5.8.8.815:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • OR cpe:/a:activestate:activeperl:5.8.8.820:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

  • * Denotes that component is vulnerable
    BACK
    perl perl 5.10.1
    activestate activeperl 5.6.1
    activestate activeperl 5.8.8.817
    activestate activeperl 5.6.1.629
    activestate activeperl 5.6.1.630
    activestate activeperl 5.6.1.635
    activestate activeperl 5.6.2
    activestate activeperl 5.6.3
    activestate activeperl 5.7.1
    activestate activeperl 5.7.2
    activestate activeperl 5.7.3
    activestate activeperl 5.8
    activestate activeperl 5.8.1
    activestate activeperl 5.8.3
    activestate activeperl 5.8.7
    activestate activeperl 5.8.8.815
    activestate activeperl 5.8.8.820