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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1711071219160.10376@e-smith.charliebrady.org>
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2017 12:22:07 -0500 (EST)
From: Charlie Brady <charlieb-oss-security@...ge.apana.org.au>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Net::Ping::External command injections


Is the primary fault in Net::Ping::External, or in whatever software takes 
untrusted input and uses it to construct args used in 
Net::Ping::External->ping()?

On Tue, 7 Nov 2017, Matthias Weckbecker wrote:

> 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
> 
> --
> [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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