Security Advisories (1)

CVE-2013-2145 (2013-08-19)

The cpansign verify functionality in the Module::Signature module before 0.72 for Perl allows attackers to bypass the signature check and execute arbitrary code via a SIGNATURE file with a "special unknown cipher" that references an untrusted module in Digest/.

https://metacpan.org/changes/distribution/Module-Signature

NAME

cpansign - CPAN signature management utility

SYNOPSIS

cpansig cpansig sign # ditto cpansig verify # verify a signature

DESCRIPTION

TBD. :-)

AUTHORS

Autrijus Tang <autrijus@autrijus.org>

COPYRIGHT

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

See http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html

To install Module::Signature, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.

cpanm

cpanm Module::Signature

CPAN shell

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Module::Signature

For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.

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