Advisories » MGASA-2014-0486

Updated perl-Plack package fixes security vulnerability

Publication date: 26 Nov 2014
Modification date: 09 Jul 2015
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 3 , 4
CVE: CVE-2014-5269

Description

Plack::App::File would previously strip trailing slashes off provided paths.
This in combination with the common pattern of serving files with
Plack::Middleware::Static could allow an attacker to bypass a whitelist of
generated files (CVE-2014-5269).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14012
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-August/137115.html
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-5269

SRPMS

3/core

• perl-Plack-1.1.400-2.1.mga3

4/core

• perl-Plack-1.2.900-2.1.mga4