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CVE-2018-6798

An issue was discovered in Perl 5.22 through 5.26.

Impact

An issue was discovered in Perl 5.22 through 5.26. Matching a crafted locale dependent regular expression can cause a heap-based buffer over-read and potentially information disclosure.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
DebianDebian Linux
Versions 7.0, 8.0, 9.0
PerlPerl
from 5.22 through 5.26
CanonicalUbuntu Linux
Versions 14.04, 16.04, 17.10
RedhatEnterprise Linux Server
Versions 6.0, 7.0, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5
RedhatEnterprise Linux Workstation
Versions 6.0, 7.0

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