ALPINE-CVE-2018-18311
Advisory lineage Upstream: 1 Downstream: 0
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Published: 07 Dec 2018, 21:29
Last modified:03 Dec 2025, 22:43
Vulnerability Summary
Overall Risk (default)
high
70/100 CVSS Score
9.8 CRITICAL
3.0 (osv_alpine)
EPSS Score
No data
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected
Timeline
07 Dec 2018, 21:29
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
03 Dec 2025, 22:43
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated
Description
Perl before 5.26.3 and 5.28.x before 5.28.1 has a buffer overflow via a crafted regular expression that triggers invalid write operations.
CVSS Metrics
- v3.0•CRITICAL•Score: 9.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected Systems
- alpine•perl
< 5.26.3-r0 | < 5.26.3-r0 | < 5.26.3-r0 | < 5.26.3-r0 | < 5.26.3-r0 | < 5.26.3-r0 | < 5.26.3-r0 | < 5.26.3-r0 | < 5.26.3-r0 | < 5.26.3-r0 | < 5.26.3-r0 | < 5.26.3-r0 | < 5.26.3-r0 | < 5.26.3-r0 | < 5.24.4-r2 | < 5.26.3-r0 | < 5.26.3-r0 | < 5.26.3-r0