| Name | CVE-2015-8607 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DSA-3441-1 |
| NVD severity | high (attack range: remote) |
| Debian Bugs | 810719 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| perl (PTS) | jessie (security), jessie | 5.20.2-3+deb8u11 | fixed |
| stretch (security), stretch | 5.24.1-3+deb9u4 | fixed | |
| buster, sid | 5.26.2-7 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| libfile-spec-perl | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | high | ||
| libfile-spec-perl | source | squeeze | (not affected) | |||
| libfile-spec-perl | source | wheezy | (not affected) | |||
| perl | source | (unstable) | 5.22.1-4 | high | 810719 | |
| perl | source | jessie | 5.20.2-3+deb8u2 | high | DSA-3441-1 | |
| perl | source | squeeze | (not affected) | |||
| perl | source | wheezy | (not affected) |
[wheezy] - perl <not-affected> (Introduced in 5.20.0)
[squeeze] - perl <not-affected> (Introduced in 5.20.0)
[wheezy] - libfile-spec-perl <not-affected> (Introduced in 3.47)
[squeeze] - libfile-spec-perl <not-affected> (Introduced in 3.47)
http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/130509aa42a87eef258fab0182ee2c7ad16baa8b
https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=126862