CVE-2018-18314

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-18314
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-18314.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-18314
Downstream
Related
Published
2018-12-07T21:29:00.920Z
Modified
2026-04-11T18:19:58.288602Z
Severity
  • 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

Perl before 5.26.3 has a buffer overflow via a crafted regular expression that triggers invalid write operations.

Database specific 
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}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/perl/perl5

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/perl/perl5
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
92583df5dc9b9edbcd4a9649f753e180b9729590
Fixed
19a498a461d7c81ae3507c450953d1148efecf4f
Database specific 
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        },
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        }
    ]
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Affected versions

Other
GitLive-blead
perl-5a2
perl-5a9
if-0.*
if-0.0603
if-0.0604
if-0.0605
perl-1.*
perl-1.0
perl-2.*
perl-2.0
perl-3.*
perl-3.000
perl-3.044
perl-4.*
perl-4.0.00
perl-4.0.36
perl-5.*
perl-5.000
perl-5.000o
perl-5.001
perl-5.001n
perl-5.002
perl-5.002_01
perl-5.003
perl-5.005
perl-5.6.0
perl-5.7.0
perl-5.7.1
perl-5.7.2
perl-5.7.3
perl-5.8.0
perl-5.9.0
perl-5.9.1
perl-5.9.2
perl-5.9.3
perl-5.9.4
perl-5.9.5
v5.*
v5.10.0
v5.11.0
v5.11.1
v5.11.3
v5.11.4
v5.11.5
v5.12.0
v5.12.0-RC0
v5.12.0-RC1
v5.12.0-RC2
v5.12.0-RC3
v5.12.0-RC4
v5.12.0-RC5
v5.13.0
v5.13.1
v5.13.10
v5.13.11
v5.13.2
v5.13.3
v5.13.4
v5.13.5
v5.13.6
v5.13.7
v5.13.8
v5.13.9
v5.14.0
v5.14.0-RC1
v5.14.0-RC2
v5.14.0-RC3
v5.15.0
v5.15.1
v5.15.2
v5.15.3
v5.15.4
v5.15.5
v5.15.9
v5.16.0
v5.16.0-RC1
v5.16.0-RC2
v5.17.0
v5.17.2
v5.17.4
v5.17.6
v5.17.7
v5.17.7.0
v5.17.8
v5.17.9
v5.18.0
v5.18.0-RC1
v5.18.0-RC2
v5.18.0-RC3
v5.18.0-RC4
v5.19.0
v5.19.1
v5.19.11
v5.19.2
v5.19.3
v5.19.5
v5.19.7
v5.20.0
v5.20.0-RC1
v5.21.0
v5.21.1
v5.21.10
v5.21.11
v5.21.4
v5.21.5
v5.21.6
v5.21.8
v5.21.9
v5.22.0
v5.22.0-RC1
v5.22.0-RC2
v5.23.0
v5.23.1
v5.23.2
v5.23.3
v5.23.4
v5.23.6
v5.23.7
v5.24.0
v5.24.0-RC1
v5.24.0-RC2
v5.24.0-RC3
v5.24.0-RC4
v5.24.0-RC5
v5.25.0
v5.25.11
v5.25.2
v5.25.3
v5.25.4
v5.25.5
v5.25.7
v5.25.9
v5.26.0
v5.26.0-RC2
v5.26.1
v5.26.1-RC1
v5.26.2
v5.26.2-RC1
v5.26.3-RC1
v5.27.0
v5.27.3
v5.27.5
v5.27.6

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-18314.json"
vanir_signatures_modified 
"2026-04-11T18:19:58Z"
vanir_signatures 
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