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Perl Laundering Security Bypass Vulnerability (Windows)
Information
Severity
Severity
Medium
Family
Family
General
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
5.0
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Solution Type
Solution Type
Vendor Patch
Created
Created
13 years ago
Modified
Modified
5 years ago
Summary
The host is installed with Perl and is prone to security bypass vulnerability.
Insight
Insight
The flaw is due to the 'uc()', 'lc()', 'lcfirst()', and 'ucfist()' functions incorrectly laundering tainted data, which can result in the unintended use of potentially malicious data after using these functions.
Affected Software
Affected Software
Perl version 5.10.x, 5.11.x, 5.12.x to 5.12.3 and 5.13.x to 5.13.11 on Windows.
Solution
Solution
Upgrade to Perl version 5.14 or later.