debian · CVE-2015-8607

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Priority: not yet assigned Published: Updated: Wed, 08 Jul 2026 15:01:25 GMT

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CVE-2015-8607 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (perl), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5.

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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