UBUNTU-CVE-2008-7319

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Source

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2008-7319

Import Source

https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2008/UBUNTU-CVE-2008-7319.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2008-7319

Upstream

CVE-2008-7319

Published

2017-11-07T21:29:00Z

Modified

2025-10-24T04:44:50Z

Severity

9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Ubuntu - medium

Summary

[none]

Details

The Net::Ping::External extension through 0.15 for Perl does not properly sanitize arguments (e.g., invalid hostnames) containing shell metacharacters before use of backticks in External.pm, allowing for shell command injection and arbitrary command execution if untrusted input is used.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / libnet-ping-external-perl

Package

Name: libnet-ping-external-perl
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/libnet-ping-external-perl@0.13-1?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

0.*

0.13-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libnet-ping-external-perl",
            "binary_version": "0.13-1"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2008/UBUNTU-CVE-2008-7319.json"