CVE-2013-1667

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-03-14 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

The rehash mechanism in Perl 5.8.2 through 5.16.x allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and crash) via a crafted hash key.

Affected products

perl: 5.8.2, 5.8.3, 5.8.4, 5.8.5, 5.8.6, 5.8.7 (+55)

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=702296
http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10705
http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10735
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Oct/msg00004.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=137891988921058&w=2
http://osvdb.org/90892
http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/6e79fe5
http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/9d83adc
http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/d59e31f
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0685.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/52472
http://secunia.com/advisories/52499

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