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Ubuntu: USN-3625-1 (CVE-2018-6798): Perl vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-3625-1 (CVE-2018-6798): Perl vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
04/16/2018
Created
07/25/2018
Added
04/25/2018
Modified
09/12/2020

Description

An issue was discovered in Perl 5.22 through 5.26. Matching a crafted locale dependent regular expression can cause a heap-based buffer over-read and potentially information disclosure.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-perl

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