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

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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    EPSS
    0.85% (83rd percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN11-PERL-531251
  • published 17 Apr 2018
  • disclosed 17 Apr 2018
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Introduced: 17 Apr 2018

CVE-2018-6797 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-787 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 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:11 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.