MGASA-2018-0241

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    MGASA-2018-0241

    Published: 16 May 2018Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026

    Summary: Updated perl packages fix security vulnerabilities

    Details: Brian Carpenter reported that a crafted regular expression could cause a heap buffer write overflow, with control over the bytes written (CVE-2018-6797). Nguyen Duc Manh reported that matching a crafted locale dependent regular expression can cause a heap-based buffer over-read and potentially information disclosure (CVE-2018-6798). GwanYeong Kim reported that 'pack()' could cause a heap buffer write overflow with a large item count (CVE-2018-6913).

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0241.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22913, https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4172

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: perl

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/perl?arch=source&distro=mageia-6

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -5.22.3-3.2.mga6

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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    User Interaction
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    Integrity
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