UBUNTU-CVE-2018-18314

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2018-18314

    Published: 29 Nov 2018Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2018-18314
    Aliases:
    USN-3834-1

    Summary:

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

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-18314, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3834-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-18314

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: perl

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -5.22.1-9ubuntu0.6

    Affected versions

    5.20.2-6

    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