Bug 600840 – dev-perl/Lab-Measurement: Package uses dev-perl/XML-Twig and makes no clear statement regarding handling of external entities (CVE-2016-9180)

• Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
• Product: Gentoo Security

[Description Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) 2016-11-25 17:47:08 UTC]

It is suspected that this package is vulnerable to a security vulnerability due to expanding of malicious entities via dev-perl/XML-Twig. As such we ask maintainers with packages suspected to be vulnerable to verify if the package is (or have been) affected. 

Please see the information contained in the tracker bug 600818.


# grep -Fr 'Twig->new' /var/tmp/portage/dev-perl/Lab-Measurement-3.531.0/work/Lab-Measurement-3.531
/var/tmp/portage/dev-perl/Lab-Measurement-3.531.0/work/Lab-Measurement-3.531/lib/Lab/Data/XMLtree.pm:    my $t = XML::Twig->new(

[Comment 1 D'juan McDonald (domhnall) 2017-09-20 08:31:02 UTC]

hi, I tested on 9/19/2017 -- 

developer / # grep -Fr 'use XML::Twig' Lab-Measurement-3.554
developer / #

Further upstream removed  Lab::Data::XMLtree from package as it is deprecated.

Package dev-perl/Lab-Measurement-3.550 is in tree. Seems ready for bump?

[Comment 2 Kent Fredric (IRC: kent\n) (RETIRED) 2018-03-24 08:31:02 UTC]

No versions of Lab-Measurement in tree mention XML-Tree anymore. Last versions removed 2017-11-29