CVE-2018-6797

Se ha descubierto un problema en Perl 5.26. Una expresión regular manipulada puede provocar un desbordamiento de búfer basado en memoria dinámica (heap), con control sobre los bytes que se escriben.

A heap buffer write overflow, with control over the bytes written, was found in the way regular expressions employing Unicode rules are compiled. An attacker, with the ability to provide a specially crafted regular expression, could crash the perl interpreter, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

It was discovered that Perl incorrectly handled certain regular expressions. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Perl to hang, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. It was discovered that Perl incorrectly loaded libraries from the current working directory. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Various other issues were also addressed.