Denial of Service and Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability in Perl 5.22

CVE-2015-8608 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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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