CVE-2018-6798

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-6798
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-6798.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-6798
Downstream
Related
Published
2018-04-17T20:29:00.580Z
Modified
2026-04-11T12:09:36.680490Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

Database specific 
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                }
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        },
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            ],
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:17.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
        },
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                    "last_affected": "7.0"
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                }
            ],
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                    "last_affected": "9.0"
                }
            ],
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        },
        {
            "source": "CPE_FIELD",
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                    "last_affected": "6.0"
                }
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            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
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                    "last_affected": "7.0"
                }
            ],
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
        },
        {
            "source": "CPE_FIELD",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "7.3"
                }
            ],
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:7.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
        },
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            "source": "CPE_FIELD",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "7.4"
                }
            ],
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:7.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
        },
        {
            "source": "CPE_FIELD",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "7.5"
                }
            ],
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:7.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
        },
        {
            "source": "CPE_FIELD",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "6.0"
                }
            ],
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
        },
        {
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            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "7.0"
                }
            ],
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
        }
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/perl/perl5

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/perl/perl5
Events
Introduced
70f63a4c7dba89e8e48b44de7978faae4319e693
Last affected
95388f2eb27e74cdbfb715c0097f16aeba4e6e4e
Database specific 
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    "source": "CPE_FIELD",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "5.22"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "5.26"
        }
    ],
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
}

Affected versions

if-0.*
if-0.0605
v5.*
v5.22.0
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

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-6798.json"