MGASA-2016-0099

Source
https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0099.html
Import Source
https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0099.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/MGASA-2016-0099
Related
Published
2016-03-07T18:03:54Z
Modified
2016-03-07T17:58:12Z
Summary
Updated perl packages fix CVE-2016-2381
Details

Updated perl packages fix security vulnerability:

Stephane Chazelas discovered a bug in the environment handling in Perl. Perl provides a Perl-space hash variable, %ENV, in which environment variables can be looked up. If a variable appears twice in envp, only the last value would appear in %ENV, but getenv would return the first. Perl's taint security mechanism would be applied to the value in %ENV, but not to the other rest of the environment. This could result in an ambiguous environment causing environment variables to be propagated to subprocesses, despite the protections supposedly offered by taint checking (CVE-2016-2381).

References
Credits

Affected packages

Mageia:5 / perl

Package

Name
perl
Purl
pkg:rpm/mageia/perl?distro=mageia-5

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
5.20.1-8.2.mga5

Ecosystem specific

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    "section": "core"
}