CVE-2016-6185 Affecting perl package, versions <5.22.2-2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (29th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN10-PERL-327672
  • published2 Aug 2016
  • disclosed2 Aug 2016

Introduced: 2 Aug 2016

CVE-2016-6185  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:10 perl to version 5.22.2-2 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream perl package and not the perl package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:10 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

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