Net-Ping-External 0.09
Security Advisories
CVE-2008-7319
The Net::Ping::External extension through 0.15 for Perl does not properly sanitize arguments (e.g., invalid hostnames) containing shell metacharacters before use of backticks in External.pm, allowing for shell command injection and arbitrary command execution if untrusted input is used.
- https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=33230
- https://bugs.debian.org/881097
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/11/07/4
- http://matthias.sdfeu.org/devel/net-ping-external-cmd-injection.patch
Severity: critical
Reported: 2017-11-07
Kwalitee Issues
- has_meta_yml
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Add a META.yml to the distribution. Your buildtool should be able to autogenerate it.
- has_human_readable_license
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Add a section called "LICENSE" to the documentation, or add a file named LICENSE to the distribution.
- has_license_in_source_file
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Add =head1 LICENSE and the text of the license to the main module in your code.
- use_strict
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Add 'use strict' (or its equivalents) to all modules, or convince us that your favorite module is well-known enough and people can easily see the modules are strictly written.
Error: Net::Ping::External
- has_meta_json
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Add a META.json to the distribution. Your buildtool should be able to autogenerate it.
- has_tests_in_t_dir
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Add tests or move tests.pl to the t/ directory!
- meta_yml_has_license
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Define the license if you are using in Build.PL. If you are using MakeMaker (Makefile.PL) you should upgrade to ExtUtils::MakeMaker version 6.31.
- has_known_license_in_source_file
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Add =head1 LICENSE and/or the proper text of the well-known license to the main module in your code.
- use_warnings
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Add 'use warnings' (or its equivalents) to all modules, or convince us that your favorite module is well-known enough and people can easily see the modules warn when something bad happens.
Error: Net::Ping::External
- has_separate_license_file
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This is not a critical issue. Currently mainly informative for the CPANTS authors. It might be removed later.
Modules
Name | Abstract | Version | View |
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Net::Ping::External | Cross-platform interface to ICMP "ping" utilities | 0.09 | metacpan |