CVE-2013-7422

high

Description

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.

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Aug/msg00001.html

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201507-11

https://support.apple.com/kb/HT205031

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2916-1

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2015-08-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: High