CVE-2016-1238

Severity

72%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

165%

(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.

(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.

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 7.8. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.2. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

First reported 8 years ago

2016-08-02 14:59:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-12-16 11:29:00

Affected Software

Debian Linux 8.0 (Jessie)

8.0

Perl 5.6.0

5.6.0

Perl 5.6.1

5.6.1

Perl 5.8.0

5.8.0

Perl 5.8.1

5.8.1

Perl 5.8.2

5.8.2

Perl 5.8.3

5.8.3

Perl 5.8.4

5.8.4

Perl 5.8.5

5.8.5

Perl 5.8.6

5.8.6

Perl 5.8.7

5.8.7

Perl 5.8.8

5.8.8

Perl 5.8.9

5.8.9

Perl 5.9.2

5.9.2

Perl perl 5.10

5.10

Perl 5.10.0

5.10.0

Perl 5.10.1

5.10.1

Perl 5.10.1 Release Candidate 1

5.10.1

Perl 5.10.1 Release Candidate 2

5.10.1

Perl 5.11.0

5.11.0

Perl perl 5.11.1

5.11.1

Perl 5.11.2

5.11.2

Perl 5.11.3

5.11.3

Perl 5.11.4

5.11.4

Perl 5.11.5

5.11.5

Perl 5.12.0

5.12.0

Perl 5.12.0 Release Candidate 0

5.12.0

Perl 5.12.0 Release Candidate 1

5.12.0

Perl 5.12.0 Release Candidate 2

5.12.0

Perl 5.12.0 Release Candidate 3

5.12.0

Perl 5.12.0 Release Candidate 4

5.12.0

Perl 5.12.0 Release Candidate 5

5.12.0

Perl 5.12.1

5.12.1

Perl 5.12.1 Release Candidate 1

5.12.1

Perl 5.12.1 Release Candidate 2

5.12.1

Perl 5.12.2

5.12.2

Perl 5.12.2 Release Candidate 1

5.12.2

Perl 5.12.3

5.12.3

Perl 5.12.3 Release Candidate 1

5.12.3

Perl 5.12.3 Release Candidate 2

5.12.3

Perl 5.12.3 Release Candidate 3

5.12.3

Perl 5.13.0

5.13.0

Perl 5.13.1

5.13.1

Perl 5.13.2

5.13.2

Perl 5.13.3

5.13.3

Perl 5.13.4

5.13.4

Perl 5.13.5

5.13.5

Perl 5.13.6

5.13.6

Perl 5.13.7

5.13.7

Perl 5.13.8

5.13.8

Perl 5.13.9

5.13.9

Perl 5.13.10

5.13.10

Perl 5.13.11

5.13.11

Perl 5.14.0

5.14.0

Perl 5.14.0 Release Candidate 1

5.14.0

Perl 5.14.0 Release Candidate 2

5.14.0

Perl 5.14.0 Release Candidate 3

5.14.0

Perl 5.14.1

5.14.1

Perl 5.14.2

5.14.2

Perl 5.14.3

5.14.3

Perl 5.16.0

5.16.0

Perl 5.16.1

5.16.1

Perl 5.16.2

5.16.2

Perl 5.17.7

5.17.7

Perl 5.18.4

5.18.4

Perl 5.20.0 Release Candidate 1

5.20.0

Perl 5.20.1

5.20.1

Perl 5.20.2 Release Candidate 1

5.20.2

Perl 5.20.3

5.20.3

Perl 5.21.0

5.21.0

Perl 5.21.1

5.21.1

Perl 5.21.2

5.21.2

Perl 5.21.3

5.21.3

Perl 5.21.4

5.21.4

Perl 5.21.5

5.21.5

Perl 5.21.6

5.21.6

Perl 5.21.7

5.21.7

Perl 5.21.8

5.21.8

Perl 5.21.9

5.21.9

Perl 5.21.10

5.21.10

Perl 5.21.11

5.21.11

Perl 5.22.0 Release Candidate 1

5.22.0

Perl 5.22.0 Release Candidate 2

5.22.0

Perl 5.22.1 Release Candidate 1

5.22.1

Perl 5.22.1 Release Candidate 2

5.22.1

Perl 5.22.1 Release Candidate 3

5.22.1

Perl 5.22.1 Release Candidate 4

5.22.1

Perl 5.22.2 Release Candidate 1

5.22.2

Perl 5.22.3 Release Candidate 1

5.22.3

Perl 5.24.0 Release Candidate 1

5.24.0

Perl 5.24.0 Release Candidate 2

5.24.0

Perl 5.24.0 Release Candidate 3

5.24.0

Perl 5.24.0 Release Candidate 4

5.24.0

Perl 5.24.0 Release Candidate 5

5.24.0

Perl 5.24.1 Release Candidate 1

5.24.1

References

openSUSE-SU-2019:1831

http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/cee96d52c39b1e7b36e1c62d38bcd8d86e9a41ab

Issue Tracking

DSA-3628

Third Party Advisory

[perl.perl5.porters] 20160725 CVE-2016-1238: Important unsafe module load path flaw

Third Party Advisory

92136

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry

1036440

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry

https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05240731

[announce] 20180916 [SECURITY] Apache SpamAssassin 3.4.2 resolves CVE-2017-15705, CVE-2016-1238, CVE-2018-11780 & CVE-2018-11781

[debian-lts-announce] 20181113 [SECURITY] [DLA 1578-1] spamassassin security update

FEDORA-2016-e9e5c081d4

FEDORA-2016-dd20a4631a

FEDORA-2016-6ec2009080

https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=127834

Permissions Required

GLSA-201701-75

GLSA-201812-07

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