CVE-2018-6797 Information

Description

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.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040681 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042004 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1192 https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=132227 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201909-01 https://usn.ubuntu.com/3625-1/ https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4172 https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

9.8