CVE-2018-6798

Se ha descubierto un problema en Perl, de la versión 5.22 a la 5.26. Si se hace que coincida una expresión regular dependiente de una locale manipulada, se puede provocar una sobrelectura de búfer basada en memoria dinámica (heap) y una potencial divulgación de información.

A heap buffer over read flaw was found in the way Perl regular expression engine handled inputs with invalid UTF-8 characters. An attacker able to provide a specially crafted input to be matched against a regular expression could cause Perl interpreter to crash or disclose portion of its memory.

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.