CVE-2015-8853 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2015-8853?

CVE-2015-8853 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 25 May 2016. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The (1) S_reghop3, (2) S_reghop4, and (3) S_reghopmaybe3 functions in regexec.c in Perl before 5.24.0 allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via crafted utf-8 data, as demonstrated by "a\x80."

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-8853?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Perl Perl.

How do I fix CVE-2015-8853?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2015-8853 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-8853 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2015-8853, GHSA-c4jc-532j-fmvf, MGASA-2016-0191, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8853.