CPANSA-perl-2015-8608: perl vulnerability

Publisher giterlizzi Document category csaf_security_advisory
Initial release date 2017-02-07T00:00:00 Engine CSAF Perl Toolkit 0.25
Current release date 2017-02-07T00:00:00 Build Date
Current version 1 Status final
CVSS v3.1 Base Score 9.8 Severity Critical
Original language Language en
Also referred to

Vulnerability Description

The VDir::MapPathA and VDir::MapPathW functions in Perl 5.22 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted (1) drive letter or (2) pInName argument.

Vulnerabilities

CVE-2015-8608

Vulnerability Description

The VDir::MapPathA and VDir::MapPathW functions in Perl 5.22 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted (1) drive letter or (2) pInName argument.

Weakness CWE-125 : Out-of-bounds Read

Product status

Known affected
Product Score
perl less than 5.22.2
CVSS Version CVSS Vector CVSS Base Score CVSS Base Severity
3.0 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H 9.8 Critical
2.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P 7.5 High
Fixed

giterlizzi

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gdt@cpan.org

References

Revision history

Version Date of the revision Summary of the revision
1 Tue Feb 7 00:00:00 2017 First release

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