CVE-2018-6798

Name
CVE-2018-6798
Description
An issue was discovered in Perl 5.22 through 5.26. Matching a crafted locale dependent regular expression can cause a heap-based buffer over-read and potentially information disclosure.
NVD Severity
medium
Other trackers
CVE, NVD, CERT, CVE Details, CIRCL, Arch Linux, Debian, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE (Bugzilla), SUSE (CVE), Mageia
Mailing lists
oss-security, full-disclosure, bugtraq
Exploits
Exploit DB, Metasploit
Forges
GitHub (code, issues), Aports (code, issues)

References

Type URI
Third Party Advisory https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4172
Vendor Advisory https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=132063
Third Party Advisory http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040681
Third Party Advisory https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1192
Third Party Advisory https://usn.ubuntu.com/3625-1/
GENTOO https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201909-01
MISC https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html

Match rules

CPE URI Source package Min version Max version
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* debian_linux == None == 9.0
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* debian_linux == None == 8.0
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* debian_linux == None == 7.0

Vulnerable and fixed packages

Source package Branch Version Maintainer Status
perl edge-main 5.26.2-r0 None fixed
perl 3.22-main 5.26.2-r0 None fixed
perl 3.21-main 5.26.2-r0 None fixed
perl 3.20-main 5.26.2-r0 None fixed
perl 3.19-main 5.26.2-r0 None fixed
perl 3.18-main 5.26.2-r0 None fixed
perl 3.17-main 5.26.2-r0 None fixed
perl 3.12-main 5.26.2-r0 None fixed
perl 3.11-main 5.26.2-r0 None fixed
perl 3.10-main 5.26.2-r0 None fixed