DEBIAN-CVE-2016-1238
- Source
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-1238
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-1238.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-1238
- Upstream
- Published
- 2016-08-02T14:59:00Z
- Modified
- 2025-09-30T03:54:33Z
- Severity
-
- 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
-
(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.
- References
Affected packages
Debian:11 / perl
Package
- Name
- perl
- Purl
- pkg:deb/debian/perl?arch=source
Debian:12 / perl
Package
- Name
- perl
- Purl
- pkg:deb/debian/perl?arch=source
Debian:13 / perl
Package
- Name
- perl
- Purl
- pkg:deb/debian/perl?arch=source
Debian:14 / perl
Package
- Name
- perl
- Purl
- pkg:deb/debian/perl?arch=source