{"action":"Upgrade perl to 5.24.4-r0 or later.","affected":[{"fixed":"5.24.4-r0","introduced":"5.18"}],"component":"perl","cve_ids":[],"ecosystem":"Alpine","ecosystem_qualifier":"Alpine:v3.5","exploited":false,"fixed_versions":["5.24.4-r0"],"id":"tcs_01M5NAY8MYZ80XVWE6EX9VB84A","modified_at":"2026-10-23T17:17:55.285070617Z","published_at":"2018-04-17T20:29:00.520Z","references":["https://osv.dev/vulnerability/ALPINE-CVE-2018-6797","https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2018-6797"],"severity":{"label":"critical","score":9.8},"sources":[{"source":"osv","source_id":"ALPINE-CVE-2018-6797#Alpine:v3.5/perl","url":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/ALPINE-CVE-2018-6797"}],"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."}