vulnerability

Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2018-12015): Perl vulnerability

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jun 7, 2018
Added
Jun 20, 2018
Modified
Aug 18, 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.

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-perl
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