CVE-2018-6797 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2018-6797?

CVE-2018-6797 is a critical memory corruption vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 17 Apr 2018. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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.

Weakness: CWE-787

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-6797?

It affects 5 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Perl Perl, Redhat Enterprise Linux Server, Redhat Enterprise Linux Workstation.

How do I fix CVE-2018-6797?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2018-6797 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-6797 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as ALPINE-CVE-2018-6797, CLEANSTART-2026-BR63033, DEBIAN-CVE-2018-6797, GHSA-8qqx-9gj6-xx9p, UBUNTU-CVE-2018-6797.