Oval Definition:
oval:com.ubuntu.xenial:def:201867970000000
Revision Date
:
2018-04-17
Version
:
1
Title
:
CVE-2018-6797 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) - medium.
Description
:
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.
Family
:
unix
Class
:
vulnerability
Status
:
Reference(s)
:
CVE-2018-6797
Platform(s)
:
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Product(s)
:
Definition Synopsis
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) is installed.
AND
perl package in xenial was vulnerable but has been fixed (note: '5.22.1-9ubuntu0.3').
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