CVE-2018-6797 — Vulnetix

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CVE-2018-6797 PUBLISHED

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.

EPSS 1.48% · 80.8th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score

1.48%

80.8th percentile

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Ubuntu:16.04:LTS	perl	0, 5.20.2-6, 5.22.1-3
Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS	perl	0, 5.14.2-21build1, 5.18.1-4

Timeline

CVE Published
May 19, 2018 PoC Published
Oct 24, 2019 PoC Published
Apr 14, 2021 EPSS Score
Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
Mar 7, 2023 EPSS Score
Dec 5, 2023 EPSS Score
Mar 17, 2025 EPSS Score
Mar 29, 2025 EPSS Score
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May 1, 2025 EPSS Score
May 4, 2025 EPSS Score

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-6797 third-party-advisory
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3625-1 vendor-advisory
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-6797 third-party-advisory

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