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Ubuntu: USN-3834-1 (CVE-2018-18312): Perl vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-3834-1 (CVE-2018-18312): Perl vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/29/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
12/07/2018
Modified
09/12/2020

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-perl

References

  • USN-3834-1
  • USN-3834-2
  • DSA-4347
  • CVE-2018-18312

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