CVE-2015-3406

Publication date 23 April 2015

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

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Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.5 · High

Score breakdown

Description

The PGP signature parsing in Module::Signature before 0.74 allows remote attackers to cause the unsigned portion of a SIGNATURE file to be treated as the signed portion via unspecified vectors.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
libmodule-signature-perl 15.04 vivid
Fixed 0.73-1ubuntu0.15.04.1
14.10 utopic
Fixed 0.73-1ubuntu0.14.10.1
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 0.73-1ubuntu0.14.04.1
12.04 LTS precise
Fixed 0.68-1ubuntu0.12.04.2
10.04 LTS lucid Ignored end of life

Notes

sbeattie

commonly used to validate CPAN signatures

Patch details

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Package Patch details
libmodule-signature-perl

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 7.5 · High

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-2607-1
    • Module::Signature vulnerabilities
    • 12 May 2015

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