CVE-2018-6797

Synopsis Moderate: rh-perl524-perl security update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Moderate Topic An update for rh-perl524-perl is now available for Red Hat Software CollectionsRed Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CV ...

Several security issues were fixed in Perl ...

Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in the implementation of the Perl programming language The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2018-6797 Brian Carpenter reported that a crafted regular expression could cause a heap buffer write overflow, with control over the bytes written CVE- ...

A heap buffer write overflow, with control over the bytes written, was found in the way regular expressions employing Unicode rules are compiled An attacker, with the ability to provide a specially crafted regular expression, could crash the perl interpreter, or possibly execute arbitrary code ...