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Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-6913: perl Multiple vulnerabilities

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-6913: perl Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
04/17/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
07/31/2018
Modified
12/27/2019

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the pack function in Perl before 5.26.2 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a large item count.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-perl

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