vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-6913: Out-of-bounds Write

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Apr 17, 2018
Added
Jul 31, 2018
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

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

alpine-linux-upgrade-perl
Title
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