CVE-2015-8607 (GCVE-0-2015-8607)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-01-13 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 08:20
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
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.
Severity
7.3 (High)
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
13 references
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|---|---|
| https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-75 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/80504 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID |
| http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034772 | vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK |
| http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA |
| http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3441 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN |
| http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA |
| http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2878-1 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU |
| http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-0… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE |
| https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html | x_refsource_MISC |
| http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/RJBS/PathTools-3.6… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=126862 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/publ… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-adviso… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
Date Public
2016-01-11 00:00
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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