The host is installed with Perl and is prone to Denial of Service Vulnerability.

Attackers can exploit this issue to crash an affected application via specially crafted UTF-8 data leading to Denial of Service. Impact Level: Application

Apply the patch. http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/0abd0d78a73da1c4d13b1c700526b7e5d03b32d4 ***** NOTE: Ignore this warning if the above mentioned patch is already applied. *****

An error occurs in Perl while matching an utf-8 character with large or invalid codepoint with a particular regular expression.

Perl version 5.10.1 on Windows.

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/10/23/8
• http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/53939
• https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=6225

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Updated on 2015-03-25