CPANSA-perl-2011-1487: perl vulnerability

Publisher giterlizzi Document category csaf_security_advisory
Initial release date 2011-04-11T00:00:00 Engine CSAF Perl Toolkit 0.25
Current release date 2011-04-11T00:00:00 Build Date
Current version 1 Status final
CVSS v3.1 Base Score Severity
Original language Language en
Also referred to

Vulnerability Description

The (1) lc, (2) lcfirst, (3) uc, and (4) ucfirst functions in Perl 5.10.x, 5.11.x, and 5.12.x through 5.12.3, and 5.13.x through 5.13.11, do not apply the taint attribute to the return value upon processing tainted input, which might allow context-dependent attackers to bypass the taint protection mechanism via a crafted string.

Vulnerabilities

CVE-2011-1487

Vulnerability Description

The (1) lc, (2) lcfirst, (3) uc, and (4) ucfirst functions in Perl 5.10.x, 5.11.x, and 5.12.x through 5.12.3, and 5.13.x through 5.13.11, do not apply the taint attribute to the return value upon processing tainted input, which might allow context-dependent attackers to bypass the taint protection mechanism via a crafted string.

Weakness CWE-264 : Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

Product status

Known affected
Product Score
perl less than 5.14.0
CVSS Version CVSS Vector CVSS Base Score CVSS Base Severity
2.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N 5.0 Medium
Fixed

giterlizzi

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gdt@cpan.org

References

Revision history

Version Date of the revision Summary of the revision
1 Mon Apr 11 00:00:00 2011 First release

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