DEBIAN-CVE-2018-6798

DEBIAN-CVE-2018-6798 PUBLISHED CVSS 7.5 HIGH

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.

Risk Scores

CVSS v3.0

7.5

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Debian:14	perl	0, 0, 0
Debian:13	perl	0, 0, 0
Debian:12	perl	0, 0, 0
Debian:11	perl	0, 0, 0

Timeline

Apr 17, 2018 CVE Published
Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-6798 advisory

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