CVE-2018-6797

NameCVE-2018-6797
DescriptionAn 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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
perl (PTS)buster5.28.1-6+deb10u1fixed
bullseye5.32.1-4+deb11u3fixed
bullseye (security)5.32.1-4+deb11u1fixed
bookworm5.36.0-7+deb12u1fixed
trixie5.38.2-3fixed
sid5.38.2-3.2fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
perlsourcestretch5.24.1-3+deb9u3
perlsource(unstable)5.26.1-6

Notes

[jessie] - perl <ignored> (Backport of fixes too intrusive and risky for regressions)
[wheezy] - perl <ignored> (Backport of fixes too intrusive and risky for regressions)
https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=132227
maint-5.26: https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/abe1e6c568b96bcb382dfa4f61c56d1ab001ea51
maint-5.24: https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/510cc261d965ccfa427900ebb368fc4d337442d2

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