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.
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Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-4172-1 perl security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2018-18544 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3625-1 Perl vulnerabilities
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T06:10:11.385Z

Reserved: 2018-02-06T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2018-6797

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-04-17T20:29:00.520

Modified: 2024-11-21T04:11:13.223

Link: CVE-2018-6797

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Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2018-04-14T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2018-6797 - Bugzilla

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