Privilege Escalation

perl is vulnerable to privilege escalation. The vulnerability exists as it was found that certain Perl string manipulation functions such as uc and lc failed to preserve the taint bit. A remote attacker could use this flaw to bypass the Perl taint mode protection mechanism in scripts that use the...

RHEL 6 : perl (RHSA-2011:0558)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2011:0558 advisory. Perl is a high-level programming language commonly used for system administration utilities and web programming. The Perl CGI module provide...