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CVE-2018-6797

Date: April 17, 2018

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.

Language: C

Severity Score

Related Resources (13)

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3625-1/
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4172
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-6797
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1192
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2018-6797
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042004
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201909-01
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-6797
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040681
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html
https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=132227
https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2018-6797
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2018-6797

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CWE-119

Out-of-bounds Write

CWE-787

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): HIGH
Integrity (I): HIGH
Availability (A): HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC): LOW
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): PARTIAL
Integrity (I): PARTIAL
Availability (A): PARTIAL
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