PT-2018-17752 · Perl+3 · Perl+3

Published 2017-12-18 · Updated 2024-05-22 · CVE-2018-6798

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Perl versions 5.22 through 5.26

Description An issue was discovered where matching a crafted locale dependent regular expression can cause a heap-based buffer over-read and potentially information disclosure.

Recommendations For Perl versions 5.22 through 5.26, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this issue.

Fix

Out of bounds Read

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-125

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2017-2810

CVE-2018-6798

DSA-4172-1

MGASA-2018-0241

OPENSUSE-SU-2024_1762-1

RHSA-2018:1192

SUSE-SU-2018:0976-1

SUSE-SU-2018:1074-1

SUSE-SU-2018:1972-1

SUSE-SU-2018:1972-2

SUSE-SU-2018_0976-1

SUSE-SU-2024:1630-1

SUSE-SU-2024:1762-1

SUSE-SU-2024:1762-2

SUSE-SU-2024_1762-1

USN-3625-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Perl

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 80

• https://debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4172 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-6913 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6185 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2024:1630-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/ALPINE-CVE-2018-6798 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-6798 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2018-00023 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-6798 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2024:1762-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-6798 · Security Note
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201909-01 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/perl · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-6798 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-6185 · Vendor Advisory
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1192 · Vendor Advisory