CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-6185
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])
- 4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Description
The XSLoader::load method in XSLoader in Perl does not properly locate .so files when called in a string eval, which might allow local users to execute arbitrary code via a Trojan horse library under the current working directory.
Affected configurations
• perl perl (>= 5.23.0 < 5.24.1)
• perl perl (>= 5.25.0 < 5.25.3)
• fedoraproject fedora 22
• fedoraproject fedora 23
• fedoraproject fedora 24
• debian debian linux 8.0
• oracle solaris 10
• oracle solaris 11.3
• canonical ubuntu linux 12.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 16.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 17.10
References
- http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/08e3451d7 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3628 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/07/1 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/08/5 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91685 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036260 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5RFDMASVZLFZYBB2GNTZXU6I76E4NA4V/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ITYZJXQH24X2F2LAOQEQAC5KXLYJTJ76/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PRIPTDA6XINBVEJXI2NGLKVEINBREHTN/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=115808 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-75 Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3625-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3625-2/ Third Party Advisory
- http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/08e3451d7 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3628 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/07/1 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/08/5 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91685 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036260 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5RFDMASVZLFZYBB2GNTZXU6I76E4NA4V/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ITYZJXQH24X2F2LAOQEQAC5KXLYJTJ76/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PRIPTDA6XINBVEJXI2NGLKVEINBREHTN/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=115808 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-75 Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3625-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3625-2/ Third Party Advisory