UBUNTU-CVE-2018-6798

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

Affected packages

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / perl

Package

Name: perl
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/perl@5.22.1-9ubuntu0.3?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

5.22.1-9ubuntu0.3

Affected versions

5.*

5.20.2-6

5.22.1-3

5.22.1-4

5.22.1-5

5.22.1-7

5.22.1-8

5.22.1-9

5.22.1-9ubuntu0.2

Ecosystem specific

{
    "availability": "No subscription required",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libperl-dev",
            "binary_version": "5.22.1-9ubuntu0.3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libperl5.22",
            "binary_version": "5.22.1-9ubuntu0.3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "perl",
            "binary_version": "5.22.1-9ubuntu0.3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "perl-base",
            "binary_version": "5.22.1-9ubuntu0.3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "perl-debug",
            "binary_version": "5.22.1-9ubuntu0.3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "perl-modules-5.22",
            "binary_version": "5.22.1-9ubuntu0.3"
        }
    ]
}