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.

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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-1601-1 perl security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-4347-1 perl security update
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3834-1 Perl vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3834-2 Perl vulnerabilities
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References
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http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Mar/49 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106145 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042181 cve-icon cve-icon
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:0327 cve-icon cve-icon
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0001 cve-icon cve-icon
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0010 cve-icon cve-icon
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0109 cve-icon cve-icon
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1790 cve-icon cve-icon
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1942 cve-icon cve-icon
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2400 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1646730 cve-icon cve-icon
https://github.com/Perl/perl5/commit/34716e2a6ee2af96078d62b065b7785c001194be cve-icon cve-icon
https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10278 cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00039.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RWQGEB543QN7SSBRKYJM6PSOC3RLYGSM/ cve-icon cve-icon
https://metacpan.org/changes/release/SHAY/perl-5.26.3 cve-icon cve-icon
https://metacpan.org/changes/release/SHAY/perl-5.28.1 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-18311 cve-icon
https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=133204 cve-icon cve-icon
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Mar/42 cve-icon cve-icon
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201909-01 cve-icon cve-icon
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190221-0003/ cve-icon cve-icon
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT209600 cve-icon cve-icon
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3834-1/ cve-icon cve-icon
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3834-2/ cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-18311 cve-icon
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4347 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2019-5072835.html cve-icon cve-icon
History

Sun, 13 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.11279}

epss

{'score': 0.12153}


Sat, 12 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.09733}

epss

{'score': 0.11279}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T11:08:21.612Z

Reserved: 2018-10-14T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2018-18311

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-12-07T21:29:00.407

Modified: 2024-11-21T03:55:40.773

Link: CVE-2018-18311

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2018-11-29T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2018-18311 - Bugzilla

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

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