PT-2016-6790 · Perl+2 · Xloader+2

Jakub Wilk · Published 2016-07-25 · Updated 2025-01-13 · CVE-2016-6185

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.8

High

Base vector

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

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

Description The XSLoader::load method in XSLoader does not properly locate .so files when called in a string eval. This might allow local users to execute arbitrary code via a Trojan horse library under the current working directory.

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

Exploit

Related Identifiers

CVE-2016-6185

DLA-565-1

DSA-3628-1

MGASA-2016-0299

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-3625-1

USN-3625-2

Affected Products

Suse

Ubuntu

Xloader

References · 66

• 🔥 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=115808 · Exploit
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6185 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-2381 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2018-00023 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2016-0299 · Vendor Advisory
• http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/08e3451d7 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8853 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8853 · Security Note
• http://debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3628 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:2246-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-3628-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-3628-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8853 · Security Note
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PRIPTDA6XINBVEJXI2NGLKVEINBREHTN · Vendor Advisory
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3625-1 · Vendor Advisory