Ubuntu 15.04 / 15.10 : perl vulnerability (USN-2878-1)

David Golden discovered that the canonpath function in the Perl File::Spec module did not properly preserve the taint attribute. An attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass the taint protection mechanism. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block...

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...

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...