UBUNTU-CVE-2018-6797

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2018-6797

    Published: 14 Apr 2018Last Modified: 8 Sept 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2018-6797
    Aliases:
    USN-3625-1

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-6797, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3625-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-6797

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: perl

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/perl?arch=source&distro=esm-infra-legacy%2Ftrusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    5.14.2-21build1

    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