| Name | CVE-2018-18311 |
| Description | Perl before 5.26.3 and 5.28.x before 5.28.1 has a buffer overflow via a crafted regular expression that triggers invalid write operations. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-1601-1, DSA-4347-1 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| perl (PTS) | bullseye | 5.32.1-4+deb11u3 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 5.32.1-4+deb11u4 | fixed |
| bookworm | 5.36.0-7+deb12u1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 5.40.0-8 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| perl | source | jessie | 5.20.2-3+deb8u12 | | DLA-1601-1 | |
| perl | source | stretch | 5.24.1-3+deb9u5 | | DSA-4347-1 | |
| perl | source | (unstable) | 5.28.1-1 | | | |
Notes
https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=133204
Introduced by: https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/e658793210bbe632a5e80a876acfcd0984c46b87
maint-5.28: https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/0589f071dc6836de80b24fd798c3336c72ead850