FreeBSD: p5-PathTools -- File::Spec::canonpath loses taint (CVE-2015-8607)
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(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
01/13/2016
07/25/2018
01/18/2016
10/30/2017
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(s)
- freebsd-upgrade-package-p5-pathtools
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