CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-1238
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-08-02
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
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.
Affected configurations
• debian debian linux 8.0
• fedoraproject fedora 23
• fedoraproject fedora 24
• perl perl 1.0.15
• perl perl 1.0.16
• perl perl 5.000
• perl perl 5.000o
• perl perl 5.001
• perl perl 5.001n
• perl perl 5.002
• perl perl 5.002 01
• perl perl 5.003
• perl perl 5.003 01
• perl perl 5.003 02
• perl perl 5.003 03
• perl perl 5.003 04
• perl perl 5.003 05
• perl perl 5.003 07
• perl perl 5.003 08
• perl perl 5.003 09
• perl perl 5.003 10
• perl perl 5.003 11
• perl perl 5.003 12
• perl perl 5.003 13
• perl perl 5.003 14
• perl perl 5.003 15
• perl perl 5.003 16
• perl perl 5.003 17
• perl perl 5.003 18
• perl perl 5.003 19
• perl perl 5.003 20
• perl perl 5.003 21
• perl perl 5.003 22
• perl perl 5.003 23
• perl perl 5.003 24
• perl perl 5.003 25
• perl perl 5.003 26
• perl perl 5.003 27
• perl perl 5.003 28
• perl perl 5.003 90
• perl perl 5.003 91
• perl perl 5.003 92
• perl perl 5.003 93
• perl perl 5.003 94
• perl perl 5.003 95
• perl perl 5.003 96
• perl perl 5.003 97
• perl perl 5.003 97a
• perl perl 5.003 97b
• perl perl 5.003 97c
• perl perl 5.003 97d
• perl perl 5.003 97e
• perl perl 5.003 97f
• perl perl 5.003 97g
• perl perl 5.003 97h
• perl perl 5.003 97i
• perl perl 5.003 97j
• perl perl 5.003 98
• perl perl 5.003 99
• perl perl 5.003 99a
… and 133 more
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00002.html Third Party Advisory
- http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/cee96d52c39b1e7b36e1c62d38bcd8d86e9a41ab Issue Tracking
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3628 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/07/msg238271.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92136 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036440 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05240731 Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/7f6a16bc0fd0fd5e67c7fd95bd655069a2ac7d1f88e42d3c853e601c%40%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E lists.apache.org
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00016.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2FBQOCV3GBAN2EYZUM3CFDJ4ECA3GZOK/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DOFRQWJRP2NQJEYEWOMECVW3HAMD5SYN/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TZBNQH3DMI7HDELJAZ4TFJJANHXOEDWH/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=127834 Permissions Required
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-75 Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201812-07 Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00002.html Third Party Advisory
- http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/cee96d52c39b1e7b36e1c62d38bcd8d86e9a41ab Issue Tracking
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3628 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/07/msg238271.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92136 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036440 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05240731 Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/7f6a16bc0fd0fd5e67c7fd95bd655069a2ac7d1f88e42d3c853e601c%40%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E lists.apache.org
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00016.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2FBQOCV3GBAN2EYZUM3CFDJ4ECA3GZOK/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DOFRQWJRP2NQJEYEWOMECVW3HAMD5SYN/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TZBNQH3DMI7HDELJAZ4TFJJANHXOEDWH/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=127834 Permissions Required
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-75 Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201812-07 Third Party Advisory