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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2018-18314: Perl: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Dec 7, 2018
Added
Sep 9, 2019
Modified
Mar 31, 2026

Description

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

Solution

gentoo-linux-upgrade-dev-lang-perl
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