CVE-2018-18314

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    CVE-2018-18314

    Published: 7 Dec 2018Last Modified: 7 Aug 2026

    Summary:

    Details: Perl before 5.26.3 has a buffer overflow via a crafted regular expression that triggers invalid write operations.

    References: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RWQGEB543QN7SSBRKYJM6PSOC3RLYGSM/, https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106145, http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042181, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0001, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0010, https://metacpan.org/changes/release/SHAY/perl-5.26.3, https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201909-01, https://usn.ubuntu.com/3834-1/, https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4347, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1646751, https://github.com/Perl/perl5/commit/19a498a461d7c81ae3507c450953d1148efecf4f, https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131649, https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190221-0003/

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name:

    Purl:

    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -92583df5dc9b9edbcd4a9649f753e180b9729590

    Affected versions

    v5.26.3-RC1
    v5.26.2
    v5.26.2-RC1
    v5.26.1
    v5.26.1-RC1
    v5.26.0
    v5.26.0-RC2

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High