critical
CVE-2018-6913
perl: heap buffer overflow in pp_pack.c
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.
Severity by source
NVD9.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Red Hat4.0CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD, Photon OS. Rated lower by Ubuntu (medium), Red Hat (low).
Description
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.
Affected packages and fixed versions
| Source | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| Photon OS 1.0 | perl | 5.24.1-1.ph1 |
| Photon OS 2.0 | perl | 5.24.1-5.ph2 |
| alpine 3.10 | perl | 5.26.2-r0 |
| alpine 3.11 | perl | 5.26.2-r0 |
| alpine 3.12 | perl | 5.26.2-r0 |
| alpine 3.13 | perl | 5.26.2-r0 |
| alpine 3.14 | perl | 5.26.2-r0 |
| alpine 3.15 | perl | 5.26.2-r0 |
| alpine 3.16 | perl | 5.26.2-r0 |
| alpine 3.17 | perl | 5.26.2-r0 |
| alpine 3.18 | perl | 5.26.2-r0 |
| alpine 3.19 | perl | 5.26.2-r0 |
Show all 84 entries from 39 sources
| Source | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| Photon OS 1.0 | perl | 5.24.1-1.ph1 |
| Photon OS 2.0 | perl | 5.24.1-5.ph2 |
| alpine 3.10 | perl | 5.26.2-r0 |
| alpine 3.11 | perl | 5.26.2-r0 |
| alpine 3.12 | perl | 5.26.2-r0 |
| alpine 3.13 | perl | 5.26.2-r0 |
| alpine 3.14 | perl | 5.26.2-r0 |
| alpine 3.15 | perl | 5.26.2-r0 |
| alpine 3.16 | perl | 5.26.2-r0 |
| alpine 3.17 | perl | 5.26.2-r0 |
| alpine 3.18 | perl | 5.26.2-r0 |
| alpine 3.19 | perl | 5.26.2-r0 |
| alpine 3.20 | perl | 5.26.2-r0 |
| alpine 3.21 | perl | 5.26.2-r0 |
| alpine 3.22 | perl | 5.26.2-r0 |
| alpine 3.23 | perl | 5.26.2-r0 |
| alpine 3.24 | perl | 5.26.2-r0 |
| alpine 3.5 | perl | 5.24.4-r0 |
| alpine 3.6 | perl | 5.24.4-r0 |
| alpine 3.7 | perl | 5.26.2-r0 |
| alpine 3.8 | perl | 5.26.2-r0 |
| alpine 3.9 | perl | 5.26.2-r0 |
| alpine edge | perl | 5.26.2-r0 |
| debian 11 | perl | 5.26.1-6 |
| debian 12 | perl | 5.26.1-6 |
| debian 13 | perl | 5.26.1-6 |
| debian 14 | perl | 5.26.1-6 |
| debian 7 | perl | 5.14.2-21+deb7u6 |
| debian 8 | perl | 5.20.2-3+deb8u10 |
| debian 9 | perl | 5.24.1-3+deb9u3 |
| echo | perl | 5.26.1-6 |
| Red Hat | perl | no fix listed |
| Red Hat | perl-Archive-Extract | no fix listed |
| Red Hat | perl-Archive-Tar | no fix listed |
| Red Hat | perl-CGI | no fix listed |
| Red Hat | perl-CPAN | no fix listed |
| Red Hat | perl-CPANPLUS | no fix listed |
| Red Hat | perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2 | no fix listed |
| Red Hat | perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib | no fix listed |
| Red Hat | perl-Compress-Zlib | no fix listed |
| Red Hat | perl-Digest-SHA | no fix listed |
| Red Hat | perl-ExtUtils-CBuilder | no fix listed |
| Red Hat | perl-ExtUtils-Embed | no fix listed |
| Red Hat | perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker | no fix listed |
| Red Hat | perl-ExtUtils-ParseXS | no fix listed |
| Red Hat | perl-File-Fetch | no fix listed |
| Red Hat | perl-IO-Compress-Base | no fix listed |
| Red Hat | perl-IO-Compress-Bzip2 | no fix listed |
| Red Hat | perl-IO-Compress-Zlib | no fix listed |
| Red Hat | perl-IO-Zlib | no fix listed |
| Red Hat | perl-IPC-Cmd | no fix listed |
| Red Hat | perl-Locale-Maketext-Simple | no fix listed |
| Red Hat | perl-Log-Message | no fix listed |
| Red Hat | perl-Log-Message-Simple | no fix listed |
| Red Hat | perl-Module-Build | no fix listed |
| Red Hat | perl-Module-CoreList | no fix listed |
| Red Hat | perl-Module-Load | no fix listed |
| Red Hat | perl-Module-Load-Conditional | no fix listed |
| Red Hat | perl-Module-Loaded | no fix listed |
| Red Hat | perl-Module-Pluggable | no fix listed |
| Red Hat | perl-Object-Accessor | no fix listed |
| Red Hat | perl-Package-Constants | no fix listed |
| Red Hat | perl-Params-Check | no fix listed |
| Red Hat | perl-Parse-CPAN-Meta | no fix listed |
| Red Hat | perl-Pod-Escapes | no fix listed |
| Red Hat | perl-Pod-Simple | no fix listed |
| Red Hat | perl-Term-UI | no fix listed |
| Red Hat | perl-Test-Harness | no fix listed |
| Red Hat | perl-Test-Simple | no fix listed |
| Red Hat | perl-Time-HiRes | no fix listed |
| Red Hat | perl-Time-Piece | no fix listed |
| Red Hat | perl-core | no fix listed |
| Red Hat | perl-devel | no fix listed |
| Red Hat | perl-libs | no fix listed |
| Red Hat | perl-parent | no fix listed |
| Red Hat | perl-suidperl | no fix listed |
| Red Hat | perl-version | no fix listed |
| root.io debian 11 | rootio-perl | 5.26.1-6 |
| root.io debian 12 | rootio-perl | 5.26.1-6 |
| ubuntu 14.04 | perl | 5.18.2-2ubuntu1.4 |
| ubuntu 14.04-ESM | perl | 5.18.2-2ubuntu1.4 |
| ubuntu 16.04 | perl | 5.22.1-9ubuntu0.3 |
| ubuntu 16.04-ESM | perl | 5.22.1-9ubuntu0.3 |
| ubuntu 17.10 | perl | 5.26.0-8ubuntu1.1 |
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103953
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040681
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-6913
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/04/msg00009.html
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-6913
- https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=131844
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201909-01
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3625-1