CVE-2015-8607

Publication date 13 January 2016

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

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Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.3 · High

Score breakdown

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.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
libfile-spec-perl 15.10 wily Not in release
15.04 vivid Not in release
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release
12.04 LTS precise
Not affected
perl 15.10 wily
Fixed 5.20.2-6ubuntu0.1
15.04 vivid
Fixed 5.20.2-2ubuntu0.1
14.04 LTS trusty
Not affected
12.04 LTS precise
Not affected

Notes

mdeslaur

introduced in perl 5.20.0 introduced in libfile-spec-perl 3.47

Patch details

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Package Patch details
perl

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 7.3 · High

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

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