Alpine: miniperl, multiple perl packages: security update to 5.26.2-r1 (deprecated)

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 400653

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities referenced in the following CVEs:

- 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. (CVE-2018-18311)

- Perl before 5.26.3 and 5.28.0 before 5.28.1 has a buffer overflow via a crafted regular expression that
triggers invalid write operations. (CVE-2018-18312)

- Perl before 5.26.3 has a buffer over-read via a crafted regular expression that triggers disclosure of
sensitive information from process memory. (CVE-2018-18313)

- Perl before 5.26.3 has a buffer overflow via a crafted regular expression that triggers invalid write
operations. (CVE-2018-18314)

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 400653

Version: Revision 1.23

Type: Local

Family: Alpine Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 8/16/2023

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.15

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-18314

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/4/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/5/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-18311, CVE-2018-18312, CVE-2018-18313, CVE-2018-18314

BID: 106072, 106145, 106179

IAVA: 2018-A-0407-S, 2020-A-0328

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