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

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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
03/02/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
03/02/2016
Modified
09/30/2020

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)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-perl

References

  • USN-2916-1
  • DSA-3501
  • CVE-2016-2381

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