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Perl Permissions Privileges and Access Controls Vulnerability - CVE-2011-1487 - Vulnerability Database
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Perl Permissions Privileges and Access Controls Vulnerability - CVE-2011-1487

Medium
Reference: CVE-2011-1487
NVD Link: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-1487
Title: Perl Permissions Privileges and Access Controls Vulnerability
Overview:

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.