CVE-2018-6798

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-6798
Import Source
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JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-6798
Downstream
ALPINE (1)
BELL (1)
CLEANSTART (2)
DEBIAN (1)
MGASA (1)
RHSA (1)
SUSE (7)
UBUNTU (1)
Related
SUSE (7)
Published
2018-04-17T20:29:00Z
Modified
2026-08-07T11:31:13Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

Database specific 
{
    "unresolved_ranges":  [
        {
            "cpes":  [
                "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:17.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "extracted_events":  [
                {
                    "introduced":  "14.04"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected":  "14.04"
                },
                {
                    "introduced":  "16.04"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected":  "16.04"
                },
                {
                    "introduced":  "17.10"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected":  "17.10"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "CPE_STRING",
            "vendor_product":  "canonical:ubuntu_linux"
        },
        {
            "cpes":  [
                "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "extracted_events":  [
                {
                    "introduced":  "7.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected":  "7.0"
                },
                {
                    "introduced":  "8.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected":  "8.0"
                },
                {
                    "introduced":  "9.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected":  "9.0"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "CPE_STRING",
            "vendor_product":  "debian:debian_linux"
        },
        {
            "cpes":  [
                "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:7.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:7.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:7.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "extracted_events":  [
                {
                    "introduced":  "6.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected":  "6.0"
                },
                {
                    "introduced":  "7.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected":  "7.0"
                },
                {
                    "introduced":  "7.3"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected":  "7.3"
                },
                {
                    "introduced":  "7.4"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected":  "7.4"
                },
                {
                    "introduced":  "7.5"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected":  "7.5"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "CPE_STRING",
            "vendor_product":  "redhat:enterprise_linux_server"
        },
        {
            "cpes":  [
                "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "extracted_events":  [
                {
                    "introduced":  "6.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected":  "6.0"
                },
                {
                    "introduced":  "7.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected":  "7.0"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "CPE_STRING",
            "vendor_product":  "redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation"
        }
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/perl/perl5

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/perl/perl5
Events
Introduced
70f63a4c7dba89e8e48b44de7978faae4319e693
Last Affected
95388f2eb27e74cdbfb715c0097f16aeba4e6e4e
Database specific
Show details 
{
    "cpe":  "cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events":  [
        {
            "introduced":  "5.22"
        },
        {
            "last_affected":  "5.26"
        }
    ],
    "source":  "CPE_RANGE"
}

Affected versions

if-0.*
if-0.0605
v5.*
v5.22.0
v5.23.0
v5.23.1
v5.23.2
v5.23.3
v5.23.4
v5.23.6
v5.23.7
v5.24.0
v5.24.0-RC1
v5.24.0-RC2
v5.24.0-RC3
v5.24.0-RC4
v5.24.0-RC5
v5.25.0
v5.25.11
v5.25.2
v5.25.3
v5.25.4
v5.25.5
v5.25.7
v5.25.9
v5.26.0
v5.26.0-RC2

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-6798.json"