Bug 1857318 (CVE-2015-8608) - CVE-2015-8608 perl: out-of-bounds read and buffer overflow in functions VDir::MapPathA and VDir::MapPathW via a crafted drive letter or a pInName argument
Summary: CVE-2015-8608 perl: out-of-bounds read and buffer overflow in functions VDir:...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2015-8608
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 1857319
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Reported: 2020-07-15 16:37 UTC by Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz
Modified: 2021-02-16 19:40 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: perl 5.24.0
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Last Closed: 2020-07-16 05:16:51 UTC
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Description Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2020-07-15 16:37:02 UTC 
The VDir::MapPathA and VDir::MapPathW functions in Perl 5.22 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted (1) drive letter or (2) pInName argument.

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https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=126755
Comment 1 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2020-07-16 05:13:52 UTC 
Upstream commit: https://github.com/Perl/perl5/commit/52236464559c6e410a4587d3c6da9639e75f3ec1#diff-31982a731a0996d0cc82a4ad4e70ad50
Comment 2 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2020-07-16 05:16:51 UTC 
This is a Microsoft Windows only flaw in perl as mentioned in the original report at: https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/15067#issuecomment-544077033
Comment 3 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2020-07-16 05:16:57 UTC 
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This is a Microsoft Windows only flaw in perl as mentioned in the original report at: https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/15067#issuecomment-544077033
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