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.
CVSS Details
- CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 7.5
- CVSS 3.0 Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)
Covered by Rapid7
| Product | Vendor Advisory | Solution File | Added | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alpine Linux | — | Upgrade perl | Jul 31, 2018 | Apr 17, 2018 |
| Debian | — | Upgrade perl | Feb 19, 2019 | Apr 17, 2018 |
| Dell Powerstore Dsa2024398 | — | Upgrade Dell PowerStoreOS to the latest version | Jan 13, 2026 | Sep 17, 2024 |
| Dell Powerstore Dsa2024408 | — | Upgrade Dell PowerStoreOS to the latest version | Jan 13, 2026 | Sep 26, 2024 |
| Dell Powerstore Dsa2024432 | — | Upgrade Dell PowerStoreOS to the latest version | Jan 13, 2026 | Oct 29, 2024 |
| Freebsd | — | Upgrade perl5 | Dec 10, 2025 | Apr 15, 2018 |
| Gentoo Linux | — | Upgrade dev-lang/perl. | Sep 9, 2019 | Apr 17, 2018 |
| Oracle Solaris | — | Upgrade runtime/perl-522 to version 5.22.1.1-11.4.5.0.1.1.0 on Solaris 11.4Upgrade entire/ to version 11.4-11.4.0.0.1.15.0 on Solaris 11.4 | Oct 19, 2018 | Apr 17, 2018 |
| Suse | — | Upgrade perl-Test-SimpleUpgrade perlUpgrade perl-Module-BuildUpgrade perl-docUpgrade perl-base-32bitUpgrade perl-baseUpgrade perl-x86Upgrade perl-32bit | Jun 21, 2018 | Apr 17, 2018 |
| Ubuntu | — | Upgrade perl | Apr 25, 2018 | Apr 16, 2018 |
| Vmware Photon_os | — | Use 'tdnf update' to upgrade all packages to the latest version. | Jan 20, 2025 | Apr 17, 2018 |
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