Internet Bug Bounty: CVE-2018-6797: A crafted regular expression can cause a heap buffer write overflow in Perl 5 giving a remote attacker control over bytes written

An attacker supplies a regular expression containing one or more \xDF characters after an escape putting the regexp into unicode matching mode, such as a \N escape. Each \xDF character adds one byte of overflow, and any other text in the regular expression is written in order, providing the...