MGASA-2016-0099

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CVE-2016-2381
Published: 07 Mar 2016, 18:03
Last modified:16 Apr 2026, 06:25

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
minimal
0/100
CVSS Score
No data
EPSS Score
No data
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

07 Mar 2016, 18:03
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
16 Apr 2026, 06:25
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

Updated perl packages fix CVE-2016-2381 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).

Affected Systems

  • mageia•perl

    < 5.20.1-8.2.mga5

References (3)