CVE-2018-18311: Apple Mac OS X
Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 11.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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.
Affected products
- Apple Mac OS X: before 10.14.4 (fixed in 10.14.4)
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 12.04 only; version 14.04 only; version 16.04 only; version 18.04 only; version 18.10 only
- Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only
- Fedoraproject Fedora: version 29 only
- McAfee Web Gateway: from 7.7.2, before 7.7.2.21 (fixed in 7.7.2.21); from 7.8.2, before 7.8.2.8 (fixed in 7.8.2.8); from 8.0.0, before 8.1.1 (fixed in 8.1.1)
- Netapp E-Series Santricity OS Controller: affected versions not specified
- Netapp Snap Creator Framework: affected versions not specified
- Netapp Snapcenter: affected versions not specified
- Netapp Snapdriver: affected versions not specified
- Perl Perl: before 5.26.3 (fixed in 5.26.3); from 5.28.0, before 5.28.1 (fixed in 5.28.1)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only; version 7.4 only; version 7.5 only; version 7.6 only
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 7.0 only
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Eus: version 7.6 only
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server: version 7.0 only
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Aus: version 7.6 only
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Tus: version 7.6 only
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation: version 7.0 only
- Red Hat Openshift Container Platform: version 3.11 only
Published 2018-12-07. Last modified 2026-06-17.