CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-6797
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-04-17
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-787
Description
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 configurations
• debian debian linux 8.0
• debian debian linux 9.0
• perl perl (>= 5.18 <= 5.26)
• canonical ubuntu linux 16.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 17.10
• redhat enterprise linux server 7.0
• redhat enterprise linux server 7.3
• redhat enterprise linux server 7.4
• redhat enterprise linux server 7.5
• redhat enterprise linux server 7.6
• redhat enterprise linux workstation 6.0
• redhat enterprise linux workstation 7.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness
References
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040681 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042004 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1192 Third Party Advisory
- https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=132227 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201909-01 security.gentoo.org
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3625-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4172 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html www.oracle.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040681 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042004 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1192 Third Party Advisory
- https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=132227 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201909-01 security.gentoo.org
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3625-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4172 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html www.oracle.com