CVE-2024-10224 Affecting libmodule-scandeps-perl package, versions <1.35-1ubuntu0.24.04.1


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (19th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2404-LIBMODULESCANDEPSPERL-8384595
  • published20 Nov 2024
  • disclosed19 Nov 2024

Introduced: 19 Nov 2024

CVE-2024-10224  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:24.04 libmodule-scandeps-perl to version 1.35-1ubuntu0.24.04.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libmodule-scandeps-perl package and not the libmodule-scandeps-perl package as distributed by Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:24.04 relevant fixed versions and status.

Qualys discovered that if unsanitized input was used with the library Modules::ScanDeps, before version 1.36 a local attacker could possibly execute arbitrary shell commands by open()ing a "pesky pipe" (such as passing "commands|" as a filename) or by passing arbitrary strings to eval().

CVSS Scores

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