CVE-2018-6797

CriticalCVSS 9.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 9.8/10CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-787

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040681Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042004Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1192Third Party Advisory
https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=132227Patch, Vendor Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201909-01
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3625-1/Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4172Third Party Advisory
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040681Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042004Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1192Third Party Advisory
https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=132227Patch, Vendor Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201909-01
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3625-1/Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4172Third Party Advisory
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html

Timeline

Published: Apr 17, 2018
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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