CVE-2018-6797 in macOS

Summary

An issue was discovered in Perl 5.18 through 5.26. A crafted regular expression can cause a heap-based buffer overflow, with control over the bytes written.

Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

• Reservation: 02/06/2018
• Disclosure: 04/17/2018
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: VDB-126325 (2)
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-119 (Confirmed)
• CVSS: 8.5
• EPSS: 0.01475
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-6797
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-6797
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2018-6797/