CVE-2015-8607 Security feature bypass in n/a

What is CVE-2015-8607?

CVE-2015-8607 is a high-severity vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 13 Jan 2016. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-8607?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Perl Pathtools.

How do I fix CVE-2015-8607?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2015-8607 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-8607 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2015-8607, DSA-3441-1, GHSA-53pj-vpxm-m333, MGASA-2016-0027.