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Out-of-bounds Write

CVE-2018-6913

Severity High
Score 9.8/10

Summary

Heap-based buffer Overflow in the pack function in Perl through 5.24.3, and 5.25.0 through 5.26.1 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a large item count.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • HIGH

CWE-787 - Out-of-Bounds Write

Out-of-bounds write vulnerability is a memory access bug that allows software to write data past the end or before the beginning of the intended buffer. This may result in the corruption of data, a crash, or arbitrary code execution.

Advisory Timeline

  • Published