CVE-2018-18311

CWE-190 — Integer OverflowCWE-787 — Out-of-bounds WriteCWE-120 — Classic Buffer Overflow13 documents10 sources
Severity
9.8CRITICAL
EPSS
11.4%
top 6.45%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
14
Apple MAC OS XMcafee WEB GatewayPerl Perl+11 more
Timeline
PublishedDec 7
Latest updateMay 13

Description

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages8 packages

▶NVDperl/perl5.28.0 — 5.28.1+1
▶Debianperl< 5.28.1-1+3
▶Ubuntuperl< 5.18.2-2ubuntu1.7+2
▶NVDapple/mac_os_x< 10.14.4
▶NVDmcafee/web_gateway7.7.2 — 7.7.2.21+2

Also affects: Debian Linux 8.0, 9.0, Fedora 29, Ubuntu Linux 12.04, 14.04, 16.04, 18.04, 18.10, Enterprise Linux 6.0, 7.0, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, Openshift Container Platform 3.11

Patches

Patch: bugzilla.redhat.com ↗Patch: github.com ↗Patch: bugzilla.redhat.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

4
GHSA
GHSA-qr73-9894-ffxf: Perl before 5↗2022-05-13
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CVEList
CVE-2018-18311: Perl before 5↗2018-12-07
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OSV
CVE-2018-18311: Perl before 5↗2018-12-07
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OSV
perl vulnerabilities↗2018-12-03
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📋Vendor Advisories

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Oracle
Oracle Oracle Enterprise Manager Risk Matrix: Install (Perl) — CVE-2018-18311↗2020-04-15
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Apple
CVE-2018-18311: macOS Mojave 10.14.4, Security Update 2019-002 High Sierra, Security Update 2019-002 Sierra↗2019-03-25
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Ubuntu
Perl vulnerabilities↗2018-12-03
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Ubuntu
Perl vulnerabilities↗2018-12-03
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Red Hat
perl: Integer overflow leading to buffer overflow in Perl_my_setenv()↗2018-11-29
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-18311 perl: Integer overflow leading to buffer overflow in Perl_my_setenv() [fedora-all]↗2018-11-30
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Bugzilla
CVE-2018-18311 perl: Integer overflow leading to buffer overflow in Perl_my_setenv()↗2018-11-05
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