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CVE-2015-8607

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Entered Topic
2016-01-12 p5-PathTools -- File::Spec::canonpath loses taint

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Details

Type Candidate
Name CVE-2015-8607
Phase Assigned(20151217)

Description

The canonpath function in the File::Spec module in PathTools before 3.62, as used in Perl, does not properly preserve the taint attribute of data, which might allow context-dependent attackers to bypass the taint protection mechanism via a crafted string.

References

Source Reference
CONFIRM http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/RJBS/PathTools-3.62/Changes
CONFIRM https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=126862
DEBIAN DSA-3441
UBUNTU USN-2878-1

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