CVE-2016-2381

Publication date 1 March 2016

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.5 · High

Score breakdown

Description

Perl might allow context-dependent attackers to bypass the taint protection mechanism in a child process via duplicate environment variables in envp.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
perl 17.04 zesty
Not affected
16.10 yakkety
Not affected
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
15.10 wily
Fixed 5.20.2-6ubuntu0.2
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 5.18.2-2ubuntu1.1
12.04 LTS precise
Fixed 5.14.2-6ubuntu2.5

Patch details

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Package Patch details
perl

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 7.5 · High

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

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