vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-2916-1 (CVE-2016-2381): Perl vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Mar 2, 2016
Added
Mar 2, 2016
Modified
Apr 14, 2025

Description

It was discovered that Perl incorrectly handled certain regular expressions
with an invalid backreference. An attacker could use this issue to cause
Perl to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute
arbitrary code. (CVE-2013-7422)

Markus Vervier discovered that Perl incorrectly handled nesting in the
Data::Dumper module. An attacker could use this issue to cause Perl to
consume memory and crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2014-4330)

Stephane Chazelas discovered that Perl incorrectly handled duplicate
environment variables. An attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass
the taint protection mechanism. (CVE-2016-2381)

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-perl
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