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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2878-1
January 21, 2016

perl vulnerability
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

– Ubuntu 15.10
– Ubuntu 15.04

Summary:

Perl incorrectly handled the taint attribute.

Software Description:
– perl: Practical Extraction and Report Language

Details:

David Golden discovered that the canonpath function in the Perl File::Spec
module did not properly preserve the taint attribute. An attacker could
possibly use this issue to bypass the taint protection mechanism.

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 15.10:
perl 5.20.2-6ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 15.04:
perl 5.20.2-2ubuntu0.1

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2878-1
CVE-2015-8607

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/perl/5.20.2-6ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/perl/5.20.2-2ubuntu0.1

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