Updated perl and perl-PathTools packages fix security vulnerability

It was reported that File::Spec::canonpath routine returns untainted strings even if passed tainted input. This defect undermines the guarantee of taint propagation, which is sometimes used to ensure that unvalidated user input does not reach sensitive code CVE-2015-8607...

Linux Privilege Escalation: RootHelper

Linux Privilege Escalation: Roothelper will aid in the process of privilege escalation on a Linux system that has been compromised, by fetching a number of enumeration and exploit suggestion scripts. The latest version downloads four scripts. Two enumeration shellscripts and two exploit suggester...

PathTools Security Mechanism Bypass Vulnerability

Perl is a free and powerful cross-platform programming language. PathTools is a set of pattern matching tools for system file paths. The 'canonpath' function in the File::Spec module of PathTools used in Perl fails to properly preserve the taint attribute of the data, allowing remote attackers to...

Fedora Update for perl-PathTools FEDORA-2016-69

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

[SECURITY] Fedora 23 Update: perl-PathTools-3.60-2.fc23

This is the combined distribution for the File::Spec and Cwd modules...

SOL34144932 - libwww-perl vulnerability CVE-2014-3230

Vulnerability Recommended Actions None Supplemental Information SOL9970: Subscribing to email notifications regarding F5 products SOL9957: Creating a custom RSS feed to view new and updated documents SOL4602: Overview of the F5 security vulnerability response policy SOL4918: Overview of the F5...

CVE-2015-8607

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...

CVE-2015-8607

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...

CVE-2015-8607

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...

CVE-2015-8607

CVE-2015-8607 affects the Perl PathTools package, specifically the File::Spec::canonpath() function. The taint propagation bug can cause tainted input to be treated as untainted, potentially allowing unvalidated user data to reach sensitive code paths. The issue is observed in Perl environments u...

Internet Bug Bounty: Perl 5.22 VDir::MapPathA/W Out-of-bounds Reads and Buffer Over-reads

I have reported multiple vulnerabilities in Perl that have now been fixed. https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=126755 --- Perl 5.22 suffers from two out-of-bounds read and multiple small buffer over-read vulnerabilities in the VDir::MapPathA and VDir::MapPathW functions that could...

CVE-2015-8607

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...

Debian DSA-3441-1 : perl - security update

David Golden of MongoDB discovered that File::Spec::canonpath in Perl returned untainted strings even if passed tainted input. This defect undermines taint propagation, which is sometimes used to ensure that unvalidated user input does not reach sensitive code. The oldstable distribution wheezy i...

[SECURITY] [DSA 3441-1] perl security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-3441-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/security/ Salvatore Bonaccorso January 11, 2016 https://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

[SECURITY] [DSA 3441-1] perl security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-3441-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/security/ Salvatore Bonaccorso January 11, 2016 https://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 3441-1 (perl - security update)

David Golden of MongoDB discovered that File::Spec::canonpath in Perl returned untainted strings even if passed tainted input. This defect undermines taint propagation, which is sometimes used to ensure that unvalidated user input does not reach sensitive code. The oldstable distribution wheezy i...

DSA-3441-1 perl - security update

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p5-PathTools -- File::Spec::canonpath loses taint

Ricardo Signes reports: Beginning in PathTools 3.47 and/or perl 5.20.0, the File::Spec::canonpath routine returned untained strings even if passed tainted input. This defect undermines the guarantee of taint propagation, which is sometimes used to ensure that unvalidated user input does not reach...

Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-3441-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

[SECURITY] Fedora 22 Update: pcre-8.38-1.fc22

Perl-compatible regular expression library. PCRE has its own native API, but a set of "wrapper" functions that are base d on the POSIX API are also supplied in the library libpcreposix. Note that this just provides a POSIX calling interface to PCRE: the regular expressions themselves still follow...