CVE-2018-6797

9.8CRITICAL

Key Information

Vendor
Debian
Status
Debian Linux
Vendor
CVE Published:
17 April 2018

Summary

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.

References

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042004
vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1192
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040681
vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK

CVSS V3.1

Score:
9.8
Severity:
CRITICAL
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
High
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Collectors

NVD DatabaseMitre Database
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