CVE-2024-55918 Affecting libgraphics-colornames-perl package, versions <3.5.0-1


Severity

Recommended
low

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-LIBGRAPHICSCOLORNAMESPERL-8502680
  • published14 Dec 2024
  • disclosed13 Dec 2024

Introduced: 13 Dec 2024

NewCVE-2024-55918  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 libgraphics-colornames-perl to version 3.5.0-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libgraphics-colornames-perl package and not the libgraphics-colornames-perl package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:11 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in the Graphics::ColorNames package before 3.2.0 for Perl. There is an ambiguity between modules and filenames that can lead to HTML injection by an attacker who can create a file in the current working directory.