Perl is a high-level programming language that is commonly used for system administration utilities and web programming. Security Fix: * perl: heap write overflow in regcomp.c * perl: heap read overflow in regexec.c For more details about the security issue, including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page listed in the References section. Red Hat would like to thank Perl 5 Porters for reporting these issues. Upstream acknowledges Brian Carpenter as the original reporter of CVE-2018-6797; and Nguyen Duc Manh as the original reporter of CVE-2018-6798.