CVE-2016-2381

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2016-03-01
CWE:
CWE-20
Bugzilla:
1309214: CVE-2016-2381 perl: ambiguous environment variables handling

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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

Find out more about CVE-2016-2381 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 5.1
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity High
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact Partial

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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux rh-perl520 Will not fix
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux perl516 Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perl Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perl Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 perl Will not fix
Red Hat Directory Server 8 perl Will not fix

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank Stephane Chazelas for reporting this issue.

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