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CVE-2016-6185 The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package perl  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1704-PERL-620370
  • published2 Aug 2016
  • disclosed2 Aug 2016
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Introduced: 2 Aug 2016

CVE-2016-6185  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:17.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream perl package and not the perl package as distributed by Ubuntu.

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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