vulnerability

FreeBSD: VID-d9f99491-1656-11e6-94fa-002590263bf5 (CVE-2016-2381): perl5 -- taint mechanism bypass vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
May 10, 2016
Added
Dec 10, 2025
Modified
Dec 10, 2025

Description

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

Solutions

freebsd-upgrade-package-perl5freebsd-upgrade-package-perl5-18freebsd-upgrade-package-perl5-20freebsd-upgrade-package-perl5-22freebsd-upgrade-package-perl
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