DEBIAN-CVE-2021-36770

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Published
2021-08-11T23:15:07Z
Modified
2025-09-19T07:31:42.811253Z
Summary
[none]
Details

Encode.pm, as distributed in Perl through 5.34.0, allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse Encode::ConfigLocal library (in the current working directory) that preempts dynamic module loading. Exploitation requires an unusual configuration, and certain 2021 versions of Encode.pm (3.05 through 3.11). This issue occurs because the || operator evaluates @INC in a scalar context, and thus @INC has only an integer value.

References

Affected packages

Debian:11

libencode-perl

Package

Name
libencode-perl
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/libencode-perl?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
3.08-1+deb11u1

Affected versions

3.*

3.08-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

perl

Package

Name
perl
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/perl?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
5.32.1-4+deb11u1

Affected versions

5.*

5.32.1-4

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:12

libencode-perl

Package

Name
libencode-perl
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/libencode-perl?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
3.08-2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

perl

Package

Name
perl
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/perl?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
5.32.1-5

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:13

libencode-perl

Package

Name
libencode-perl
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/libencode-perl?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
3.08-2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

perl

Package

Name
perl
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/perl?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
5.32.1-5

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:14

libencode-perl

Package

Name
libencode-perl
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/libencode-perl?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
3.08-2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

perl

Package

Name
perl
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/perl?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
5.32.1-5

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}