Heap-based Buffer Overflow in Perl Regular Expression Processing

Heap-based Buffer Overflow in Perl Regular Expression Processing

CVE-2018-6797 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

An issue was discovered in Perl 5.18 through 5.26. A crafted regular expression can cause a heap-based buffer overflow, with control over the bytes written.

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