oss-security - Net::Ping::External command injections

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Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2017 17:51:27 +0100
From: Matthias Weckbecker <matthias@...kbecker.name>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Net::Ping::External command injections

Hi,

Net::Ping::External [0] is prone to command injection vulnerabilities.

The issues are roughly 10 (!) years old [1], but the code is still being
shipped these days (e.g. in ubuntu artful and debian stretch [2]).

I had contacted the author of the code a few days ago, but obviously did
not get any reaction.

A patch is available here:

  http://matthias.sdfeu.org/devel/net-ping-external-cmd-injection.patch

Maybe time to just patch it downstream? Or drop this pkg. altogether?

Thanks,
Matthias

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[0] https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::Ping::External
[1] https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Net-Ping-External
    (id #33230)
[2] https://packages.debian.org/stable/perl/libnet-ping-external-perl \
    https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libnet-ping-external-perl

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