CVE Vulnerability

CVE-2018-6797

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.

7.5 /10

CVSS v2.0 :

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 10 / Impact : 6.4

Attack Vector

Attack Complexity

Privileges Required

User Interaction

Confidentiality Impact PARTIAL

Integrity Impact PARTIAL

Availability Impact PARTIAL

Scope

9.8 /10

CVSS v3.0 : CRITICAL

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 5.9

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

References
Link Resource
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4172 Third Party Advisory
https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=132227 Patch Vendor Advisory
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040681 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1192 Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3625-1/ Third Party Advisory
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042004 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201909-01
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html
Configurations

Configuration 1

cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:17.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:7.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:7.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:7.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:7.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Information

Published : 2018-04-17 08:29

Updated : 2020-08-24 05:37

NVD link : CVE-2018-6797

Mitre link : CVE-2018-6797

Products Affected
No products.
CWE
CWE-787