Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting perl-version package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.5% (77th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL6-PERLVERSION-1382811
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed29 Nov 2018

Introduced: 29 Nov 2018

CVE-2018-18311  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-120  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:6 perl-version.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream perl-version package and not the perl-version package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:6 relevant fixed versions and status.

Perl before 5.26.3 and 5.28.x before 5.28.1 has a buffer overflow via a crafted regular expression that triggers invalid write operations.

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