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CVE-2018-6798

high

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.

References

https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4172

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3625-1/

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201909-01

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1192

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040681

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html

https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=132063

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2018-04-17

Updated: 2024-11-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.0149