CVE-2011-3597

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    CVE-2011-3597

    Published: 13 Jan 2012Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: Eval injection vulnerability in the Digest module before 1.17 for Perl allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary commands via the new constructor.

    References: http://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/perl_advisory2.asc, http://secunia.com/advisories/46279, http://secunia.com/advisories/51457, http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:008, http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:009, http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1643-1, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=743010, http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/GAAS/Digest-1.17/Changes, http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10705, http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10735, http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1424.html, http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1797.html, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/49911, https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A19446

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High