Out-of-bounds Read The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package perl  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1204-PERL-327614
  • published2 Dec 2018
  • disclosed7 Dec 2018

Introduced: 2 Dec 2018

CVE-2018-18313  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:12.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream perl package and not the perl package as distributed by Ubuntu.

Perl before 5.26.3 has a buffer over-read via a crafted regular expression that triggers disclosure of sensitive information from process memory.