CVEs-PoC/2008/CVE-2008-1927.md

### [CVE-2008-1927](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1927)
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### Description

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.

### POC

#### Reference
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=454792
- http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=48156

#### Github
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