Description
Perl might allow context-dependent attackers to bypass the taint protection mechanism in a child process via duplicate environment variables in envp.
Published: 2016-04-08
Score: 7.5 High
EPSS: 27.4% Moderate
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Remediation

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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-3501-1 perl security update
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-2916-1 Perl vulnerabilities
History

Sat, 12 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.25627}

epss

{'score': 0.18017}


Subscriptions

Canonical Ubuntu Linux
Debian Debian Linux
Opensuse Opensuse
Oracle Communications Billing And Revenue Management Configuration Manager Database Server Enterprise Manager Base Platform Solaris Timesten In-memory Database
Perl Perl
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T23:24:49.270Z

Reserved: 2016-02-13T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2016-2381

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2016-04-08T15:59:05.183

Modified: 2026-05-06T22:30:45.220

Link: CVE-2016-2381

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2016-03-01T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-2381 - Bugzilla

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Weaknesses