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perl-MDK-Common: privilege escalation

Package(s):perl-MDK-Common CVE #(s):
Created:March 13, 2009 Updated:March 18, 2009
Description: perl-MDK-Common has a privilege escalation vulnerability. From the Mandriva alert:

The functions used to write strings into shell like configuration files by Mandriva tools were not taking care of some special characters. This could lead to some bugs (like wireless keys containing certain characters not working), and privilege escalation. This update fixes that issue by ensuring proper protection of strings.

Alerts:
Mandriva MDVSA-2009:072 2009-03-10

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