vulnerability

Ubuntu: (CVE-2008-7319): libnet-ping-external-perl vulnerability

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Nov 7, 2017
Added
Jun 26, 2025
Modified
Jul 28, 2025

Description

The Net::Ping::External extension through 0.15 for Perl does not properly sanitize arguments (e.g., invalid hostnames) containing shell metacharacters before use of backticks in External.pm, allowing for shell command injection and arbitrary command execution if untrusted input is used.

Solution

no-fix-ubuntu-package
Title
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