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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2018-6913: Vulnerability in Perl

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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2018-6913: Vulnerability in Perl

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
04/17/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
10/19/2018
Modified
02/17/2022

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)

  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-entire-11-4-11-4-0-0-1-15-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-runtime-perl-522-5-22-1-1-11-4-5-0-1-1-0

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