CVE-2016-1238
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Aug 2, 2016
- Updated
- Aug 5, 2024
- Reserved
- Dec 27, 2015
Description
(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.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
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References
- GLSA-201701-75vendor-advisory
- GLSA-201812-07vendor-advisory
- http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/cee96d52c39b1e7b36e1c62d38bcd8d86e9a41ab
- 1036440vdb-entry
- DSA-3628vendor-advisory
- [announce] 20180916 [SECURITY] Apache SpamAssassin 3.4.2 resolves CVE-2017-15705, CVE-2016-1238, CVE-2018-11780 & CVE-2018-11781mailing-list
- FEDORA-2016-6ec2009080vendor-advisory
- [perl.perl5.porters] 20160725 CVE-2016-1238: Important unsafe module load path flawmailing-list
- FEDORA-2016-e9e5c081d4vendor-advisory
- https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05240731
- FEDORA-2016-dd20a4631avendor-advisory
- 92136vdb-entry
- [debian-lts-announce] 20181113 [SECURITY] [DLA 1578-1] spamassassin security updatemailing-list
- https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=127834
- openSUSE-SU-2019:1831vendor-advisory
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