{"action":"Upgrade perl to 5.26.2-r0 or later.","affected":[{"fixed":"5.26.2-r0","introduced":"5.22"}],"component":"perl","cve_ids":[],"ecosystem":"Alpine","ecosystem_qualifier":"Alpine:v3.16","exploited":false,"fixed_versions":["5.26.2-r0"],"id":"tcs_01M5NAYAEPE628KC2TK2DEVNWP","modified_at":"2026-10-23T17:17:55.285111717Z","published_at":"2018-04-17T20:29:00.580Z","references":["https://osv.dev/vulnerability/ALPINE-CVE-2018-6798","https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2018-6798"],"severity":{"label":"high","score":7.5},"sources":[{"source":"osv","source_id":"ALPINE-CVE-2018-6798#Alpine:v3.16/perl","url":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/ALPINE-CVE-2018-6798"}],"summary":"An issue was discovered in Perl 5.22 through 5.26. Matching a crafted locale dependent regular expression can cause a heap-based buffer over-read and potentially information disclosure."}