# CVE-2018-6797: An issue was discovered in Perl 5.18 through 5.26.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2018-04-17 · Updated: 2024-08-05

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## 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.

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## References

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

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