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 written.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS / perl

Package

Name: perl
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/perl@5.18.2-2ubuntu1.7+esm5?arch=source&distro=esm-infra-legacy/trusty

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

5.*

5.14.2-21build1

5.18.1-4

5.18.1-4build1

5.18.1-5

5.18.2-2

5.18.2-2ubuntu1

5.18.2-2ubuntu1.1

5.18.2-2ubuntu1.3

5.18.2-2ubuntu1.4

5.18.2-2ubuntu1.6

5.18.2-2ubuntu1.7

5.18.2-2ubuntu1.7+esm3

5.18.2-2ubuntu1.7+esm4

5.18.2-2ubuntu1.7+esm5

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / perl

Package

Name: perl
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/perl@5.22.1-9ubuntu0.3?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

5.22.1-9ubuntu0.3

Affected versions

5.*

5.20.2-6

5.22.1-3

5.22.1-4

5.22.1-5

5.22.1-7

5.22.1-8

5.22.1-9

5.22.1-9ubuntu0.2

Ecosystem specific

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            "binary_version": "5.22.1-9ubuntu0.3",
            "binary_name": "libperl-dev"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "5.22.1-9ubuntu0.3",
            "binary_name": "libperl5.22"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "5.22.1-9ubuntu0.3",
            "binary_name": "perl"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "5.22.1-9ubuntu0.3",
            "binary_name": "perl-base"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "5.22.1-9ubuntu0.3",
            "binary_name": "perl-debug"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "5.22.1-9ubuntu0.3",
            "binary_name": "perl-doc"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "5.22.1-9ubuntu0.3",
            "binary_name": "perl-modules-5.22"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}