CVE-2018-6798

HIGH

Debian Linux < 5.26 - Out-of-Bounds Read

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

Description

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.

References (7)

Core 7
Core References
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1192
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040681
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3625-1/
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4172
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201909-01
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=132063

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0160
EPSS Percentile 81.9%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-125
Status published
Products (14)
canonical/ubuntu_linux 14.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 16.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 17.10
debian/debian_linux 7.0
debian/debian_linux 8.0
debian/debian_linux 9.0
perl/perl 5.22 - 5.26
redhat/enterprise_linux_server 6.0
redhat/enterprise_linux_server 7.0
redhat/enterprise_linux_server 7.3
... and 4 more
Published Apr 17, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026