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OS X update for Perl (CVE-2018-18313)

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OS X update for Perl (CVE-2018-18313)

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Published
12/07/2018
Created
04/22/2019
Added
03/26/2019
Modified
03/18/2020

Description

Perl before 5.26.3 has a buffer over-read via a crafted regular expression that triggers disclosure of sensitive information from process memory.

Solution(s)

  • apple-osx-security-update-2019-002-high-sierra
  • apple-osx-upgrade-10_14_4

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