| 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, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DSA-3441-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 810719 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| perl (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 5.20.2-3+deb8u14 | fixed |
| stretch (security) | 5.24.1-3+deb9u5 | fixed |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 5.24.1-3+deb9u8 | fixed |
| buster, buster (lts) | 5.28.1-6+deb10u2 | fixed |
| bullseye | 5.32.1-4+deb11u3 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 5.32.1-4+deb11u4 | fixed |
| bookworm | 5.36.0-7+deb12u1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 5.40.0-7 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[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