Ubuntu 21.04 : Perl vulnerability (USN-5033-1)

The remote Ubuntu 21.04 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-5033-1 advisory. It was discovered that the Perl Encode library incorrectly handled paths. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to trick the library into executing arbitrary...

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...