Denial of Service Vulnerability in Perl's Rehash Mechanism

CVE-2013-1667 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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.

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