CVE-2018-6913

high-risk
Published 2018-04-17

Heap-based buffer overflow in the pack function in Perl before 5.26.2 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a large item count.

Do I need to act?

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3.9% chance of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS score — moderate exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Fix available
Upgrade to: c5b1997939178730653db9e80f90cd53d722fe8d
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CVSS 9.8/10 Critical
NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (8)

Affected Vendors

Debian Perl Canonical

References (18)

Third Party Advisory http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103953
Third Party Advisory http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040681
Mailing List https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/04/msg00009.html
Vendor Advisory https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=131844
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201909-01
Third Party Advisory https://usn.ubuntu.com/3625-1/
Third Party Advisory https://usn.ubuntu.com/3625-2/
Third Party Advisory https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4172
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html
Third Party Advisory http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103953
Third Party Advisory http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040681
Mailing List https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/04/msg00009.html
Vendor Advisory https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=131844
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201909-01
Third Party Advisory https://usn.ubuntu.com/3625-1/
Third Party Advisory https://usn.ubuntu.com/3625-2/
Third Party Advisory https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4172
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html
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high-risk
Severity 32/34 · Critical
Exploitability 7/34 · Low
Exposure 14/34 · Moderate