Out-of-bounds Write The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package perl  (opens in a new tab)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-613356
  • published17 Apr 2018
  • disclosed17 Apr 2018

Introduced: 17 Apr 2018

CVE-2018-6797  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (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.

An issue was discovered in Perl 5.18 through 5.26. A crafted regular expression can cause a heap-based buffer overflow, with control over the bytes written.