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UBUNTU-CVE-2018-6797

An issue was discovered in Perl 5.18 through 5.26. A crafted regular expression can cause a heap-based buffer overflow, with control over the bytes wr...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

An issue was discovered in Perl 5.18 through 5.26. A crafted regular expression can cause a heap-based buffer overflow, with control over the bytes written.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS perl

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}]

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS perl

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"5.22.1-9ubuntu0.3"}]}]

References

advisory ubuntu.com
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