CVE-2016-6185 — Perl vulnerability

11 documents8 sources
Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
OSV7.5
EPSS
0.2%
top 52.21%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
5
PerlCanonical Ubuntu LinuxDebian Linux+2 more
Timeline
PublishedAug 2
Latest updateMay 13

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages4 packages

▶NVDperl/perl5.23.0 — 5.24.1+1
▶Debianperl/perl< 5.22.2-2+3
▶Ubuntuperl/perl< 5.18.2-2ubuntu1.4+1
▶NVDoracle/solaris10, 11.3+1

Also affects: Debian Linux 8.0, Fedora 22, 23, 24, Ubuntu Linux 12.04, 14.04, 16.04, 17.10

Patches

Patch: rt.cpan.org ↗Patch: rt.cpan.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

4
GHSA
GHSA-6f2m-6xw2-h922: The XSLoader::load method in XSLoader in Perl does not properly locate↗2022-05-13
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OSV
perl vulnerabilities↗2018-04-16
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CVEList
CVE-2016-6185: The XSLoader::load method in XSLoader in Perl does not properly locate↗2016-08-02
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OSV
CVE-2016-6185: The XSLoader::load method in XSLoader in Perl does not properly locate↗2016-08-02
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📋Vendor Advisories

4
Ubuntu
Perl vulnerabilities↗2018-04-17
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Ubuntu
Perl vulnerabilities↗2018-04-16
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Red Hat
perl: XSLoader loads relative paths not included in @INC↗2016-06-30
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Debian
CVE-2016-6185: perl - The XSLoader::load method in XSLoader in Perl does not properly locate .so files...↗2016
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2016-6185 perl: XSLoader loads relative paths not included in @INC↗2016-07-11
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Bugzilla
CVE-2016-6185 perl: XSLoader loads relative paths not included in @INC [fedora-all]↗2016-07-11
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CVE-2016-6185 — Perl vulnerability | cvebase