PT-2016-5149 · Perl Foundation+3 · Perl+3

Published 2016-03-01 · Updated 2025-01-13 · CVE-2016-2381

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Perl (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue allows context-dependent attackers to bypass the taint protection mechanism in a child process via duplicate environment variables in envp.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2017-1157

CVE-2016-2381

DSA-3501-1

MGASA-2016-0099

RHSA-2026:6206

ROSA-SA-2025-2552

SUSE-SU-2016:2246-1

SUSE-SU-2016:2263-1

SUSE-SU-2017:2699-1

SUSE-SU-2017:2700-1

USN-2916-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Perl

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 44

• http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/ae37b791a73a9e78dedb89fb2429d2628cf58076 · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3501 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2013-7422 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-2381 · Security Note
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0099.html · Security Note
• https://debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3501 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-2381 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-3501-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-2381 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2016-0099 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-2381 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:2263-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2916-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-2381 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-2916-1 · Vendor Advisory