Security Advisories (23)
CVE-2011-2728 (2012-12-21)

The bsd_glob function in the File::Glob module for Perl before 5.14.2 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a glob expression with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag, which triggers an uninitialized pointer dereference.

CVE-2020-12723 (2020-06-05)

regcomp.c in Perl before 5.30.3 allows a buffer overflow via a crafted regular expression because of recursive S_study_chunk calls.

CVE-2020-10878 (2020-06-05)

Perl before 5.30.3 has an integer overflow related to mishandling of a "PL_regkind[OP(n)] == NOTHING" situation. A crafted regular expression could lead to malformed bytecode with a possibility of instruction injection.

CVE-2020-10543 (2020-06-05)

Perl before 5.30.3 on 32-bit platforms allows a heap-based buffer overflow because nested regular expression quantifiers have an integer overflow.

CVE-2018-6913 (2018-04-17)

Heap-based buffer overflow in the pack function in Perl before 5.26.2 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a large item count.

CVE-2018-18314 (2018-12-07)

Perl before 5.26.3 has a buffer overflow via a crafted regular expression that triggers invalid write operations.

CVE-2018-18313 (2018-12-07)

Perl before 5.26.3 has a buffer over-read via a crafted regular expression that triggers disclosure of sensitive information from process memory.

CVE-2018-18312 (2018-12-05)

Perl before 5.26.3 and 5.28.0 before 5.28.1 has a buffer overflow via a crafted regular expression that triggers invalid write operations.

CVE-2018-18311 (2018-12-07)

Perl before 5.26.3 and 5.28.x before 5.28.1 has a buffer overflow via a crafted regular expression that triggers invalid write operations.

CVE-2015-8853 (2016-05-25)

The (1) S_reghop3, (2) S_reghop4, and (3) S_reghopmaybe3 functions in regexec.c in Perl before 5.24.0 allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via crafted utf-8 data, as demonstrated by "a\x80."

CVE-2013-1667 (2013-03-14)

The rehash mechanism in Perl 5.8.2 through 5.16.x allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and crash) via a crafted hash key.

CVE-2011-0761 (2011-05-13)

Perl 5.10.x allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) by leveraging an ability to inject arguments into a (1) getpeername, (2) readdir, (3) closedir, (4) getsockname, (5) rewinddir, (6) tell, or (7) telldir function call.

CVE-2010-4777 (2014-02-10)

The Perl_reg_numbered_buff_fetch function in Perl 5.10.0, 5.12.0, 5.14.0, and other versions, when running with debugging enabled, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and application exit) via crafted input that is not properly handled when using certain regular expressions, as demonstrated by causing SpamAssassin and OCSInventory to crash.

CVE-2009-3626 (2009-10-29)

Perl 5.10.1 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a UTF-8 character with a large, invalid codepoint, which is not properly handled during a regular-expression match.

CVE-2012-5195 (2012-12-18)

Heap-based buffer overflow in the Perl_repeatcpy function in util.c in Perl 5.12.x before 5.12.5, 5.14.x before 5.14.3, and 5.15.x before 15.15.5 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via the 'x' string repeat operator.

CVE-2016-2381 (2016-04-08)

Perl might allow context-dependent attackers to bypass the taint protection mechanism in a child process via duplicate environment variables in envp.

CVE-2013-7422 (2015-08-16)

Integer underflow in regcomp.c in Perl before 5.20, as used in Apple OS X before 10.10.5 and other products, allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a long digit string associated with an invalid backreference within a regular expression.

CVE-2011-1487 (2011-04-11)

The (1) lc, (2) lcfirst, (3) uc, and (4) ucfirst functions in Perl 5.10.x, 5.11.x, and 5.12.x through 5.12.3, and 5.13.x through 5.13.11, do not apply the taint attribute to the return value upon processing tainted input, which might allow context-dependent attackers to bypass the taint protection mechanism via a crafted string.

CVE-2023-47100

In Perl before 5.38.2, S_parse_uniprop_string in regcomp.c can write to unallocated space because a property name associated with a \p{...} regular expression construct is mishandled. The earliest affected version is 5.30.0.

CVE-2024-56406 (2025-04-13)

A heap buffer overflow vulnerability was discovered in Perl. When there are non-ASCII bytes in the left-hand-side of the `tr` operator, `S_do_trans_invmap` can overflow the destination pointer `d`.    $ perl -e '$_ = "\x{FF}" x 1000000; tr/\xFF/\x{100}/;'    Segmentation fault (core dumped) It is believed that this vulnerability can enable Denial of Service and possibly Code Execution attacks on platforms that lack sufficient defenses.

CVE-2023-47039 (2023-10-30)

Perl for Windows relies on the system path environment variable to find the shell (cmd.exe). When running an executable which uses Windows Perl interpreter, Perl attempts to find and execute cmd.exe within the operating system. However, due to path search order issues, Perl initially looks for cmd.exe in the current working directory. An attacker with limited privileges can exploit this behavior by placing cmd.exe in locations with weak permissions, such as C:\ProgramData. By doing so, when an administrator attempts to use this executable from these compromised locations, arbitrary code can be executed.

CVE-2016-1238 (2016-08-02)

(1) cpan/Archive-Tar/bin/ptar, (2) cpan/Archive-Tar/bin/ptardiff, (3) cpan/Archive-Tar/bin/ptargrep, (4) cpan/CPAN/scripts/cpan, (5) cpan/Digest-SHA/shasum, (6) cpan/Encode/bin/enc2xs, (7) cpan/Encode/bin/encguess, (8) cpan/Encode/bin/piconv, (9) cpan/Encode/bin/ucmlint, (10) cpan/Encode/bin/unidump, (11) cpan/ExtUtils-MakeMaker/bin/instmodsh, (12) cpan/IO-Compress/bin/zipdetails, (13) cpan/JSON-PP/bin/json_pp, (14) cpan/Test-Harness/bin/prove, (15) dist/ExtUtils-ParseXS/lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp, (16) dist/Module-CoreList/corelist, (17) ext/Pod-Html/bin/pod2html, (18) utils/c2ph.PL, (19) utils/h2ph.PL, (20) utils/h2xs.PL, (21) utils/libnetcfg.PL, (22) utils/perlbug.PL, (23) utils/perldoc.PL, (24) utils/perlivp.PL, and (25) utils/splain.PL in Perl 5.x before 5.22.3-RC2 and 5.24 before 5.24.1-RC2 do not properly remove . (period) characters from the end of the includes directory array, which might allow local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse module under the current working directory.

CVE-2015-8608 (2017-02-07)

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.

NAME

Net::Cmd - Network Command class (as used by FTP, SMTP etc)

SYNOPSIS

use Net::Cmd;

@ISA = qw(Net::Cmd);

DESCRIPTION

Net::Cmd is a collection of methods that can be inherited by a sub class of IO::Handle. These methods implement the functionality required for a command based protocol, for example FTP and SMTP.

USER METHODS

These methods provide a user interface to the Net::Cmd object.

debug ( VALUE )

Set the level of debug information for this object. If VALUE is not given then the current state is returned. Otherwise the state is changed to VALUE and the previous state returned.

Different packages may implement different levels of debug but a non-zero value results in copies of all commands and responses also being sent to STDERR.

If VALUE is undef then the debug level will be set to the default debug level for the class.

This method can also be called as a static method to set/get the default debug level for a given class.

message ()

Returns the text message returned from the last command

code ()

Returns the 3-digit code from the last command. If a command is pending then the value 0 is returned

ok ()

Returns non-zero if the last code value was greater than zero and less than 400. This holds true for most command servers. Servers where this does not hold may override this method.

status ()

Returns the most significant digit of the current status code. If a command is pending then CMD_PENDING is returned.

datasend ( DATA )

Send data to the remote server, converting LF to CRLF. Any line starting with a '.' will be prefixed with another '.'. DATA may be an array or a reference to an array.

dataend ()

End the sending of data to the remote server. This is done by ensuring that the data already sent ends with CRLF then sending '.CRLF' to end the transmission. Once this data has been sent dataend calls response and returns true if response returns CMD_OK.

CLASS METHODS

These methods are not intended to be called by the user, but used or over-ridden by a sub-class of Net::Cmd

debug_print ( DIR, TEXT )

Print debugging information. DIR denotes the direction true being data being sent to the server. Calls debug_text before printing to STDERR.

debug_text ( TEXT )

This method is called to print debugging information. TEXT is the text being sent. The method should return the text to be printed

This is primarily meant for the use of modules such as FTP where passwords are sent, but we do not want to display them in the debugging information.

command ( CMD [, ARGS, ... ])

Send a command to the command server. All arguments a first joined with a space character and CRLF is appended, this string is then sent to the command server.

Returns undef upon failure

unsupported ()

Sets the status code to 580 and the response text to 'Unsupported command'. Returns zero.

response ()

Obtain a response from the server. Upon success the most significant digit of the status code is returned. Upon failure, timeout etc., undef is returned.

parse_response ( TEXT )

This method is called by response as a method with one argument. It should return an array of 2 values, the 3-digit status code and a flag which is true when this is part of a multi-line response and this line is not the list.

getline ()

Retrieve one line, delimited by CRLF, from the remote server. Returns undef upon failure.

NOTE: If you do use this method for any reason, please remember to add some debug_print calls into your method.

ungetline ( TEXT )

Unget a line of text from the server.

rawdatasend ( DATA )

Send data to the remote server without performing any conversions. DATA is a scalar.

read_until_dot ()

Read data from the remote server until a line consisting of a single '.'. Any lines starting with '..' will have one of the '.'s removed.

Returns a reference to a list containing the lines, or undef upon failure.

tied_fh ()

Returns a filehandle tied to the Net::Cmd object. After issuing a command, you may read from this filehandle using read() or <>. The filehandle will return EOF when the final dot is encountered. Similarly, you may write to the filehandle in order to send data to the server after issuing a command that expects data to be written.

See the Net::POP3 and Net::SMTP modules for examples of this.

EXPORTS

Net::Cmd exports six subroutines, five of these, CMD_INFO, CMD_OK, CMD_MORE, CMD_REJECT and CMD_ERROR, correspond to possible results of response and status. The sixth is CMD_PENDING.

AUTHOR

Graham Barr <gbarr@pobox.com>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 1995-2006 Graham Barr. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.