Out-of-bounds Read Affecting perl package, versions <5.24.1-3+deb9u3
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.53% (77th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN9-PERL-327690
- published 17 Apr 2018
- disclosed 17 Apr 2018
Introduced: 17 Apr 2018
CVE-2018-6798 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:9
perl
to version 5.24.1-3+deb9u3 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream perl
package and not the perl
package as distributed by Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:9
relevant fixed versions and status.
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.