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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3873-1 perl -- security update

Date Reported:

05 Jun 2017

Affected Packages:

perl

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 863870.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-6512.

More information:

The cPanel Security Team reported a time of check to time of use (TOCTTOU) race condition flaw in File::Path, a core module from Perl to create or remove directory trees. An attacker can take advantage of this flaw to set the mode on an attacker-chosen file to a attacker-chosen value.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 5.20.2-3+deb8u7.

For the upcoming stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 5.24.1-3.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 5.24.1-3.

We recommend that you upgrade your perl packages.