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CVE-2018-6797
An issue was discovered in Perl 5.18 through 5.26.
Impact
An issue was discovered in Perl 5.18 through 5.26. A crafted regular expression can cause a heap-based buffer overflow, with control over the bytes written.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Debian | Debian Linux | Versions 8.0, 9.0 |
| Perl | Perl | from 5.18 through 5.26 |
| Canonical | Ubuntu Linux | Versions 16.04, 17.10 |
| Redhat | Enterprise Linux Server | Versions 7.0, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6 |
| Redhat | Enterprise Linux Workstation | Versions 6.0, 7.0 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040681
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042004
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1192
- https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=132227
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201909-01
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3625-1/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4172
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040681
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042004
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1192
- https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=132227
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201909-01
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3625-1/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4172
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html