Improper Input Validation Affecting perl package, versions <5.22.1-8


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.83% (82nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN10-PERL-327750
  • published8 Apr 2016
  • disclosed8 Apr 2016

Introduced: 8 Apr 2016

CVE-2016-2381  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:10 perl to version 5.22.1-8 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.

Perl might allow context-dependent attackers to bypass the taint protection mechanism in a child process via duplicate environment variables in envp.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1