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CVE-2018-6913

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Date: April 17, 2018

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.

Language: C

Severity Score

9.8

Related Resources (14)

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2018-6913

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-6913

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-6913

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-6913

Url: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201909-01

Url: http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040681

Url: https://usn.ubuntu.com/3625-1/

Url: https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4172

Url: https://usn.ubuntu.com/3625-2/

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103953

Url: https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html

Url: https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=131844

Url: https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/04/msg00009.html

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2018-6913

Severity Score

9.8

Weakness Type (CWE)

Buffer Errors

CWE-119

Out-of-bounds Write

CWE-787

Top Fix

Upgrade Version

Upgrade to version 5.26.2

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	9.8
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	HIGH
Integrity (I):	HIGH
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	7.5
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	PARTIAL
Integrity (I):	PARTIAL
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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