CVE-2013-7422

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    CVE-2013-7422

    Published: 16 Aug 2015Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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, http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2916-1, https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201507-11, https://support.apple.com/kb/HT205031, http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/0c2990d652e985784f095bba4bc356481a66aa06, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75704

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High