Fedora Update for perl-Net-Ping-External FEDORA-2017-69e06543c1

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Fedora Update for perl-Net-Ping-External FEDORA-2017-c7514691cb

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Fedora 26 : perl-Net-Ping-External (2017-69e06543c1)

Fixes a command injection vulnerability CVE-2008-7319 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional...

CVE-2008-7319

The CVE-2008-7319 issue affects the Perl Net::Ping::External extension (up to version 0.15) where External.pm does not properly sanitize inputs containing shell metacharacters before using backticks, enabling shell command injection and arbitrary command execution when untrusted input is supplied...