Arbitrary Code Injection Affecting perl-suidperl package, versions <4:5.10.1-130.el6_4


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
58.02% (98th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL6-PERLSUIDPERL-1456685
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed4 Dec 2012

Introduced: 4 Dec 2012

CVE-2012-6329  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-94  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:6 perl-suidperl to version 4:5.10.1-130.el6_4 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2013:0685.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream perl-suidperl package and not the perl-suidperl package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:6 relevant fixed versions and status.

The _compile function in Maketext.pm in the Locale::Maketext implementation in Perl before 5.17.7 does not properly handle backslashes and fully qualified method names during compilation of bracket notation, which allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary commands via crafted input to an application that accepts translation strings from users, as demonstrated by the TWiki application before 5.1.3, and the Foswiki application 1.0.x through 1.0.10 and 1.1.x through 1.1.6.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1