Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting rh-perl524-perl-libs package, versions <4:5.24.0-381.el7


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-RHPERL524PERLLIBS-4746733
  • 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 rh-perl524-perl-libs to version 4:5.24.0-381.el7 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2019:0010.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream rh-perl524-perl-libs package and not the rh-perl524-perl-libs 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.