Name: CVE-2018-18312: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2018-12-05T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2018-18312, CWE-119, CVSS 9.8, EPSS 0.1085

Perl before 5.26.3 and 5.28.0 before 5.28.1 has a buffer overflow via a crafted regular expression that triggers invalid write operations.

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 9.8
CVSS 3.0 Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Alpine Linux	—	Upgrade perl	Dec 7, 2018	Dec 5, 2018
Debian	—	Upgrade perl	Nov 30, 2018	Nov 29, 2018
Gentoo Linux	—	Upgrade dev-lang/perl.	Sep 9, 2019	Dec 5, 2018
Oracle Solaris	—	Upgrade runtime/perl-522 to version 5.22.1.1-11.4.8.0.1.3.0 on Solaris 11.4Upgrade runtime/perl-522 to version 5.22.1.1-0.175.3.36.0.12.0 on Solaris 11.3	Apr 17, 2019	Dec 5, 2018
Suse	—	Upgrade perl-core-DB_FileUpgrade perl-baseUpgrade perl-32bitUpgrade perlUpgrade perl-base-32bitUpgrade perl-doc	Dec 23, 2018	Nov 29, 2018
Ubuntu	—	Upgrade perl	Dec 7, 2018	Nov 29, 2018
Vmware Photon_os	—	Use 'tdnf update' to upgrade all packages to the latest version.	Jan 20, 2025	Dec 5, 2018

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CVSS Details

Covered by Rapid7

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