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CVE-2018-6798
CVE-2018-6798
PUBLISHED
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.
EPSS 1.60% · 82.1th percentile
Risk Scores
EPSS Score
1.60%
82.1th percentile
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu:16.04:LTS | perl | 5.20.2-6, 5.22.1-3, 0 |
Exploit Intelligence
- Heap-buffer-overflow in Perl__byte_dump_string (utf8.c) could lead to memory leak (hackerone)
- Heap-buffer-overflow in Perl__byte_dump_string (utf8.c) could lead to memory leak (hackerone)
- Heap-buffer-overflow in Perl__byte_dump_string (utf8.c) could lead to memory leak (hackerone)
- TestCommand.yaml (github-poc)
- TestCommand.yaml (github-poc)
- TestCommand.yaml (github-poc)
- TestCommand.yaml (github-poc)
- TestCommand.yaml (github-poc)
- TestCommand.yaml (github-poc)
Timeline
- CVE Published
- Oct 24, 2019 PoC Published
- Apr 14, 2021 EPSS Score
- Aug 24, 2021 EPSS Score
- Dec 27, 2021 EPSS Score
- Feb 28, 2022 EPSS Score
- Jul 3, 2022 EPSS Score
- Nov 6, 2022 EPSS Score
- Mar 11, 2023 EPSS Score
- Jul 15, 2023 EPSS Score
- Sep 15, 2023 EPSS Score
- Jan 18, 2024 EPSS Score
References
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-6798 third-party-advisory
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3625-1 vendor-advisory
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-6798 third-party-advisory