CVE-2018-6797

Description

An issue was discovered in Perl 5.18 through 5.26. A crafted regular expression can cause a heap-based buffer overflow, with control over the bytes written.

Risk Information

Base Score
9.8
MODERATE
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score
Exploitation Probability
1.475

Associated Vulnerability

VulnerabilityOS Platform
Multiple vulnerabilities are fixed in macOS Mojave 10.14.1Mac
Multiple vulnerabilities are fixed in macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 - Reboot AutomaticallyMac
Multiple vulnerabilities are fixed in macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 Combo Update - Reboot AutomaticallyMac
Practical Extraction and Report Language (USN-3625-1) perl_5.26.0-8ubuntu1.1_amd64.debLinux
perl security update(DSA-4172-1) perl_5.24.1-3+deb9u3_i386.debLinux
perl security update(DSA-4172-1) perl_5.24.1-3+deb9u3_amd64.debLinux
perl security update(DSA-4172-1) perl_5.20.2-3+deb8u10_i386.debLinux
perl security update(DSA-4172-1) perl_5.20.2-3+deb8u10_amd64.debLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:1972-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) perl-5.18.2-12.14.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:1972-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) perl-32bit-5.18.2-12.14.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:1972-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) perl-base-5.18.2-12.14.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:1972-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) perl-base-debuginfo-5.18.2-12.14.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:1972-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) perl-debuginfo-5.18.2-12.14.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:1972-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) perl-debuginfo-32bit-5.18.2-12.14.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:1972-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) perl-debugsource-5.18.2-12.14.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:1972-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) perl-doc-5.18.2-12.14.1.noarch.rpmLinux
Out-of-bounds Write Vulnerability (CVE-2018-6797)NCM

Patch Details

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Patch IDPatch Description
PATCH-602004macOS Mojave 10.14.6
PATCH-601562macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 - Reboot Automatically
PATCH-601563macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 Combo Update - Reboot Automatically

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234