CVE-2018-6798

NameCVE-2018-6798
DescriptionAn 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.
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)bullseye5.32.1-4+deb11u3fixed
bullseye (security)5.32.1-4+deb11u4fixed
bookworm5.36.0-7+deb12u1fixed
sid, trixie5.40.0-8fixed

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

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
perlsourcewheezy(not affected)
perlsourcejessie(not affected)
perlsourcestretch5.24.1-3+deb9u3
perlsource(unstable)5.26.1-6

Notes

[jessie] - perl <not-affected> (Issue introduced later)
[wheezy] - perl <not-affected> (Issue introduced later)
https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=132063
maint-5.26: https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/8e6f44c90c7fa1f63c19a44c45482b09a407e15b
maint-5.26: https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/8b80ce67ff257aaa36e47eaf4194d27a51595524
maint-5.24: https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/0abf1e8d89aecd32dbdabda5da4d52a2d57a7cff
maint-5.24: https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/f65da1ca2eee74696d9c120e9d69af37b4fa1920

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