[CVE-2008-1927] Perl 5.8.8 vulnerability via UTF-8 regular expression

Binary package hint: perl

From the National Vulnerability Database, CVE-2008-1927:

"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."

From the Debian security advisory DSA-1556-1:

"It has been discovered that the Perl interpreter may encounter a buffer
overflow condition when compiling certain regular expressions containing
Unicode characters. This also happens if the offending characters are
contained in a variable reference protected by the \Q...\E quoting
construct. When encountering this condition, the Perl interpreter
typically crashes, but arbitrary code execution cannot be ruled out."

References:
http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-1927
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1927
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1556 (not yet published on the site)