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Unscored USN-3625-1 6 CVEs

perl vulnerabilities

Published Apr 16, 2018 · Updated Apr 22, 2026

Summary

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. (CVE-2015-8853)

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. (CVE-2016-6185)

It was discovered that Perl incorrectly handled the rmtree and remove_tree
functions. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to set the mode
on arbitrary files. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu
16.04 LTS. (CVE-2017-6512)

Brian Carpenter discovered that Perl incorrectly handled certain regular
expressions. An attacker could use this issue to cause Perl to crash,
resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This
issue has only been addressed in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 17.10.
(CVE-2018-6797)

Nguyen Duc Manh discovered that Perl incorrectly handled certain regular
expressions. An attacker could use this issue to cause Perl to crash,
resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
and Ubuntu 17.10. (CVE-2018-6798)

GwanYeong Kim discovered that Perl incorrectly handled certain data when
using the pack function. An attacker could use this issue to cause Perl to
crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary
code. (CVE-2018-6913)

Fixed packages 2

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 14.04 LTS 14.04:LTS perl 5.18.2-2ubuntu1.4
Ubuntu · 16.04 LTS 16.04:LTS perl 5.22.1-9ubuntu0.3

Vulnerabilities 6

  • Unscored —

    The (1) S_reghop3, (2) S_reghop4, and (3) S_reghopmaybe3 functions in regexec.c in Perl before 5.24.0 allow context-dep…

  • Unscored —

    The XSLoader::load method in XSLoader in Perl does not properly locate .so files when called in a string eval, which mi…

  • Unscored —

    Race condition in the rmtree and remove_tree functions in the File-Path module before 2.13 for Perl allows attackers to…

  • Unscored —

    An issue was discovered in Perl 5.18 through 5.26. A crafted regular expression can cause a heap-based buffer overflow,…

  • Unscored —

    An issue was discovered in Perl 5.22 through 5.26. Matching a crafted locale dependent regular expression can cause a h…

  • Unscored —
    CVE-2018-6913 EPSS 11%

    Heap-based buffer overflow in the pack function in Perl before 5.26.2 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arb…

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8853
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-6185
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-6512
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-6797
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-6798
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-6913