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Fedora 22 perl-PathTools Security Advisory: Critical Taint Flaw Fix

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Calendar Grey January 27, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Important alert regarding perl-PathTools addresses security vulnerability in canonpath(). Safeguard your system integrity by performing the update immediately.
This release fixes CVE-2015-8607 (losing taint flag in File::Spec::canonpath() subroutine).

Summary

This is the combined distribution for the File::Spec and Cwd modules.

Update Information:

This release fixes CVE-2015-8607 (losing taint flag in File::Spec::canonpath() subroutine).

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Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1293272 - CVE-2015-8607 perl-PathTools: Taint propagation flaw in canonpath() https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1293272

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update perl-PathTools' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: perl-PathTools
Product: Fedora 22
Version: 3.47
Release: 312.fc22
URL: https://metacpan.org/dist/PathTools
Summary: PathTools Perl module (Cwd, File::Spec)

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