vulnerability
Alpine Linux: CVE-2015-8607: perl-PathTools Taint propagation flaw in canonpath()
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) | Jan 13, 2016 | Aug 30, 2017 | Oct 30, 2017 |
Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jan 13, 2016
Added
Aug 30, 2017
Modified
Oct 30, 2017
Description
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.
Solution
alpine-linux-upgrade-perl-pathtools
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