vulnerability

OS X update for Perl (CVE-2018-12015)

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jun 7, 2018
Added
Mar 26, 2019
Modified
Aug 13, 2025

Description

In Perl through 5.26.2, the Archive::Tar module allows remote attackers to bypass a directory-traversal protection mechanism, and overwrite arbitrary files, via an archive file containing a symlink and a regular file with the same name.

Solutions

apple-osx-security-update-2019-002-high-sierraapple-osx-upgrade-10_14_4
Title
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