| Name | CVE-2018-6913 |
| Description | Heap-based buffer overflow in the pack function in Perl before 5.26.2 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a large item count. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-1345-1, DSA-4172-1 |
| NVD severity | high |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| perl (PTS) | stretch | 5.24.1-3+deb9u7 | fixed |
| stretch (security) | 5.24.1-3+deb9u5 | fixed |
| buster | 5.28.1-6+deb10u1 | fixed |
| bullseye | 5.32.1-4+deb11u2 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 5.32.1-4+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm, sid | 5.32.1-6 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=131844
maint-5.26: https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/0fcf83230df5f8c52602ae22fde57c7ea885534d
maint-5.24: https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/a9d5c6e11891b48be06d4e06eeed18642bc98527