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Message-Id: <20160420143548.A83166C05E8@smtpvmsrv1.mitre.org>
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 10:35:48 -0400 (EDT)
From: cve-assign@...re.org
To: carnil@...ian.org
Cc: cve-assign@...re.org, oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE Request: perl: denial-of-service / Regexp-matching "hangs" indefinitely on illegal input using binmode :utf8 using 100%CPU
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> A bug in perl can cause regular expressions an malformed UTF8 inputs
> to go into a forever loop and consume 100% CPU. The issue was found to
> drive a realworld web application into an infinite loop
>
> https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=123562
> http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/22b433eff9a1ffa2454e18405a56650f07b385b5
> https://bugs.debian.org/821848
Use CVE-2015-8853 for all of 22b433eff9a1ffa2454e18405a56650f07b385b5.
We do not feel that there is enough information to pursue an
interpretation of "I did this also in the similar areas of regexec.c"
as requiring a separate CVE.
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