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Debian 0.73-1+deb8u2 DSA-3261-2 Critical: Libmodule-Signature-Perl

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Calendar Grey May 20, 2015
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Revise address issues in libmodule-signature-perl following DSA-3261-1; multiple security risks identified.
The update for libmodule-signature-perl issued as DSA-3261-1 introduced a regression in the handling of the --skip option of cpansign

Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in libmodule-signature-perl, a
Perl module to manipulate CPAN SIGNATURE files. The Common
Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:

CVE-2015-3406

John Lightsey discovered that Module::Signature could parses the
unsigned portion of the SIGNATURE file as the signed portion due to
incorrect handling of PGP signature boundaries.

CVE-2015-3407

John Lightsey discovered that Module::Signature incorrectly handles
files that are not listed in the SIGNATURE file. This includes some
files in the t/ directory that would execute when tests are run.

CVE-2015-3408

John Lightsey discovered that Module::Signature uses two argument
open() calls to read the files when generating checksums from the
signed manifest. This allows to embed arbitrary shell commands into
the SIGNATURE file that would execute during the signature
verification process.

CVE-2015-3409

John Lightsey discovered that Module::Signat...

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