CVE-2018-6797

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CVSS 3.0

9.8 critical

EPSS

7%p93

Published

Apr 17, 2018 (Apr 17, 2018)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

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.

Vendors: debian perl canonical redhat
Products: debian linux, perl, ubuntu linux, enterprise linux server, enterprise linux workstation
Weakness: CWE-787
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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