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DEBIAN-CVE-2018-6798

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...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 perl

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"5.26.1-6"}]}]

Debian:13 perl

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"5.26.1-6"}]}]

Debian:14 perl

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"5.26.1-6"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org