An issue was discovered in Perl 5.22 through 5.26. Matching a crafted locale dependent regular expression can cause a heap-based buffer over-read and potentially information disclosure.

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Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-4172-1 perl security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2018-18545 An issue was discovered in Perl 5.22 through 5.26. Matching a crafted locale dependent regular expression can cause a heap-based buffer over-read and potentially information disclosure.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3625-1 Perl vulnerabilities
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T06:10:11.392Z

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

Link: CVE-2018-6798

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-04-17T20:29:00.580

Modified: 2024-11-21T04:11:13.413

Link: CVE-2018-6798

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

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

Links: CVE-2018-6798 - Bugzilla

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