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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2016-1238: Vulnerability in Perl

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Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Aug 2, 2016
Added
Jun 20, 2017
Modified
Feb 1, 2022

Description

(1) cpan/Archive-Tar/bin/ptar, (2) cpan/Archive-Tar/bin/ptardiff, (3) cpan/Archive-Tar/bin/ptargrep, (4) cpan/CPAN/scripts/cpan, (5) cpan/Digest-SHA/shasum, (6) cpan/Encode/bin/enc2xs, (7) cpan/Encode/bin/encguess, (8) cpan/Encode/bin/piconv, (9) cpan/Encode/bin/ucmlint, (10) cpan/Encode/bin/unidump, (11) cpan/ExtUtils-MakeMaker/bin/instmodsh, (12) cpan/IO-Compress/bin/zipdetails, (13) cpan/JSON-PP/bin/json_pp, (14) cpan/Test-Harness/bin/prove, (15) dist/ExtUtils-ParseXS/lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp, (16) dist/Module-CoreList/corelist, (17) ext/Pod-Html/bin/pod2html, (18) utils/c2ph.PL, (19) utils/h2ph.PL, (20) utils/h2xs.PL, (21) utils/libnetcfg.PL, (22) utils/perlbug.PL, (23) utils/perldoc.PL, (24) utils/perlivp.PL, and (25) utils/splain.PL in Perl 5.x before 5.22.3-RC2 and 5.24 before 5.24.1-RC2 do not properly remove . (period) characters from the end of the includes directory array, which might allow local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse module under the current working directory.

Solutions

oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-runtime-perl-512-5-12-5-0-175-3-21-0-5-0oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-runtime-perl-522-5-22-1-0-175-3-21-0-5-0oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-runtime-perl-584-5-8-4-0-175-3-24-0-3-0oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-runtime-perl-584-extra-5-8-4-0-175-3-24-0-2-0oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-runtime-perl-common-1-0-175-3-21-0-5-0oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-runtime-perl-threaded-512-5-12-5-0-175-3-21-0-5-0

References

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