Out-of-bounds Write Affecting perl package, versions <5.26.1-6


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.85% (83rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN10-PERL-327701
  • published17 Apr 2018
  • disclosed17 Apr 2018

Introduced: 17 Apr 2018

CVE-2018-6797  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:10 perl to version 5.26.1-6 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream perl package and not the perl package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:10 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.