Out-of-Bounds Affecting perl package, versions <5.28.1-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.07% (90th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-PERL-327603
  • published2 Dec 2018
  • disclosed5 Dec 2018

Introduced: 2 Dec 2018

CVE-2018-18312  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:unstable perl to version 5.28.1-1 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:unstable relevant fixed versions and status.

Perl before 5.26.3 and 5.28.0 before 5.28.1 has a buffer overflow via a crafted regular expression that triggers invalid write operations.