CPANSA-perl-2018-6797: perl vulnerability

Publisher giterlizzi Document category csaf_security_advisory
Initial release date 2018-04-17T00:00:00 Engine CSAF Perl Toolkit 0.25
Current release date 2018-04-17T00:00:00 Build Date
Current version 1 Status final
CVSS v3.1 Base Score 9.8 Severity Critical
Original language Language en
Also referred to

Vulnerability 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.

Vulnerabilities

CVE-2018-6797

Vulnerability 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.

Weakness CWE-787 : Out-of-bounds Write

Product status

Known affected
Product Score
perl greater than or equal 5.18.0 and less than 5.24.4
CVSS Version CVSS Vector CVSS Base Score CVSS Base Severity
3.0 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H 9.8 Critical
2.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P 7.5 High
perl greater than or equal 5.26.0 and less than 5.26.2
CVSS Version CVSS Vector CVSS Base Score CVSS Base Severity
3.0 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H 9.8 Critical
2.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P 7.5 High
Fixed

giterlizzi

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gdt@cpan.org

References

Revision history

Version Date of the revision Summary of the revision
1 Tue Apr 17 00:00:00 2018 First release

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