CVE-2008-1927: Perl

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 3.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Double free vulnerability in Perl 5.8.8 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and crash) via a crafted regular expression containing UTF8 characters. NOTE: this issue might only be present on certain operating systems.

Affected products

• Perl Perl: version 5.8.8 only

Published 2008-04-24. Last modified 2026-06-16.