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CVE-2018-18311

Published: 29 November 2018

Perl before 5.26.3 and 5.28.x before 5.28.1 has a buffer overflow via a crafted regular expression that triggers invalid write operations.

Notes

AuthorNote
upstream 
5.8.0 - 5.26 (introduced in e658793210bb)

Priority

Medium

CVSS 3 base score: 9.8

Status

Package Release Status
perl
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian 		bionic
Released (5.26.1-6ubuntu0.3)
cosmic
Released (5.26.2-7ubuntu0.1)
precise
Released (5.14.2-6ubuntu2.9)
trusty
Released (5.18.2-2ubuntu1.7)
upstream
Released (5.28.1-1)
xenial
Released (5.22.1-9ubuntu0.6)

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