Secunia Security Advisory - Two vulnerabilities have been reported in Locale::Maketext module for Perl, which can be exploited by malicious users to compromise an application using the module.
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TITLE:
Perl Locale::Maketext Module Two Code Injection Vulnerabilities
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA51498
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RELEASE DATE:
2012-12-07
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DESCRIPTION:
Two vulnerabilities have been reported in Locale::Maketext module for
Perl, which can be exploited by malicious users to compromise an
application using the module.
The vulnerabilities are caused due to the "_compile()" function not
properly sanitising input, which can be exploited to inject and
execute arbitrary Perl code.
The vulnerabilities are reported in version 1.23. Prior versions may
also be affected.
SOLUTION:
Fixed in the GIT repository:
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PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Brian Carlson of cPanel
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=695224
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