FKIE_CVE-2008-7319

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2017-11-07 21:29 - Updated: 2026-06-16 23:04
Severity
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
The Net::Ping::External extension through 0.15 for Perl does not properly sanitize arguments (e.g., invalid hostnames) containing shell metacharacters before use of backticks in External.pm, allowing for shell command injection and arbitrary command execution if untrusted input is used.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://matthias.sdfeu.org/devel/net-ping-external-cmd-injection.patchIssue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/11/07/4Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugs.debian.org/881097Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=33230Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://matthias.sdfeu.org/devel/net-ping-external-cmd-injection.patchIssue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/11/07/4Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugs.debian.org/881097Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=33230Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
net-ping-external_project net-ping-external *
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