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FreeBSD: perl5 -- taint mechanism bypass vulnerability (CVE-2016-2381)

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FreeBSD: perl5 -- taint mechanism bypass vulnerability (CVE-2016-2381)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
04/08/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/11/2016
Modified
09/14/2020

Description

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

Solution(s)

  • freebsd-upgrade-package-perl5
  • freebsd-upgrade-package-perl5.18
  • freebsd-upgrade-package-perl5.20
  • freebsd-upgrade-package-perl5.22

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