CVE-2018-18311

Public on 2018-12-07
Modified on 2019-03-25
Description
Perl before 5.26.3 and 5.28.x before 5.28.1 has a buffer overflow via a crafted regular expression that triggers invalid write operations.
Severity
Important severity
Important
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CVSS v3 Base Score
8.1
See breakdown

Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory Status
Amazon Linux 1 perl 2019-03-20 ALAS-2019-1180 Fixed
Amazon Linux 2 - Core perl 2019-03-07 ALAS2-2019-1166 Fixed

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 8.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD CVSSv2 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
NVD CVSSv3 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H