Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting perl-IO-Zlib package, versions <1:1.10-292.el7_5.1


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-RHEL7-PERLIOZLIB-4886520
  • 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?

Upgrade RHEL:7 perl-IO-Zlib to version 1:1.10-292.el7_5.1 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2019:1790.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream perl-IO-Zlib package and not the perl-IO-Zlib package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 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.