{"id":"MGASA-2016-0191","summary":"Updated perl packages fix security vulnerability","details":"The regex engine got into an infinite loop because of the malformation. It\nis trying to back-up over a sequence of UTF-8 continuation bytes. The\ncharacter just before the sequence should be a start byte. If it's not,\nthere is a malformation which results in \"hang\" of regexp matching and CPU\nexhaustion (CVE-2015-8853).\n","modified":"2026-04-16T06:26:15.950424390Z","published":"2016-05-20T11:38:30Z","upstream":["CVE-2015-8853"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0191.html"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18423"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/183592.html"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"perl","ecosystem":"Mageia:5","purl":"pkg:rpm/mageia/perl?arch=source&distro=mageia-5"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"5.20.1-8.3.mga5"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"section":"core"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0191.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","credits":[{"name":"Mageia","contact":["https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Packages_Security_Team"],"type":"COORDINATOR"}]}