CVE-2018-6797
N/A
Published: April 17, 2018 at 08:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 02:02 AM UTC
5 products affected across 4 vendorsDebian LinuxUbuntu LinuxEnterprise Linux Server
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 6%
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
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (8)
VDB Entryx_refsource_SECTRACKThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040681VDB Entryx_refsource_SECTRACKThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042004Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHATThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1192x_refsource_CONFIRMPatchVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=132227Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
Source: [email protected]
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201909-01Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3625-1/Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4172Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-787
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