ubuntu-cve-2016-1238
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
(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.
{
"affected": [
{
"ecosystem_specific": {
"availability": "No subscription required",
"binaries": [
{
"binary_name": "libsys-syslog-perl",
"binary_version": "0.33-1+deb8u1build0.14.04.1"
}
]
},
"package": {
"ecosystem": "Ubuntu:14.04:LTS",
"name": "libsys-syslog-perl",
"purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/libsys-syslog-perl@0.33-1+deb8u1build0.14.04.1?arch=source\u0026distro=trusty"
},
"ranges": [
{
"events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"fixed": "0.33-1+deb8u1build0.14.04.1"
}
],
"type": "ECOSYSTEM"
}
],
"versions": [
"0.29-1build2",
"0.33-1"
]
},
{
"ecosystem_specific": {
"binaries": [
{
"binary_name": "libcgi-fast-perl",
"binary_version": "5.18.2-2ubuntu1.7+esm7"
},
{
"binary_name": "libperl5.18",
"binary_version": "5.18.2-2ubuntu1.7+esm7"
},
{
"binary_name": "perl",
"binary_version": "5.18.2-2ubuntu1.7+esm7"
},
{
"binary_name": "perl-base",
"binary_version": "5.18.2-2ubuntu1.7+esm7"
},
{
"binary_name": "perl-debug",
"binary_version": "5.18.2-2ubuntu1.7+esm7"
},
{
"binary_name": "perl-modules",
"binary_version": "5.18.2-2ubuntu1.7+esm7"
}
]
},
"package": {
"ecosystem": "Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS",
"name": "perl",
"purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/perl@5.18.2-2ubuntu1.7+esm7?arch=source\u0026distro=esm-infra-legacy/trusty"
},
"ranges": [
{
"events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
}
],
"type": "ECOSYSTEM"
}
],
"versions": [
"5.14.2-21build1",
"5.18.1-4",
"5.18.1-4build1",
"5.18.1-5",
"5.18.2-2",
"5.18.2-2ubuntu1",
"5.18.2-2ubuntu1.1",
"5.18.2-2ubuntu1.3",
"5.18.2-2ubuntu1.4",
"5.18.2-2ubuntu1.6",
"5.18.2-2ubuntu1.7",
"5.18.2-2ubuntu1.7+esm3",
"5.18.2-2ubuntu1.7+esm4",
"5.18.2-2ubuntu1.7+esm5",
"5.18.2-2ubuntu1.7+esm7"
]
},
{
"ecosystem_specific": {
"binaries": [
{
"binary_name": "libperl5.22",
"binary_version": "5.22.1-9ubuntu0.9+esm2"
},
{
"binary_name": "perl",
"binary_version": "5.22.1-9ubuntu0.9+esm2"
},
{
"binary_name": "perl-base",
"binary_version": "5.22.1-9ubuntu0.9+esm2"
},
{
"binary_name": "perl-debug",
"binary_version": "5.22.1-9ubuntu0.9+esm2"
},
{
"binary_name": "perl-modules-5.22",
"binary_version": "5.22.1-9ubuntu0.9+esm2"
}
]
},
"package": {
"ecosystem": "Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS",
"name": "perl",
"purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/perl@5.22.1-9ubuntu0.9+esm2?arch=source\u0026distro=esm-infra-legacy/xenial"
},
"ranges": [
{
"events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
}
],
"type": "ECOSYSTEM"
}
],
"versions": [
"5.20.2-6",
"5.22.1-3",
"5.22.1-4",
"5.22.1-5",
"5.22.1-7",
"5.22.1-8",
"5.22.1-9",
"5.22.1-9ubuntu0.2",
"5.22.1-9ubuntu0.3",
"5.22.1-9ubuntu0.5",
"5.22.1-9ubuntu0.6",
"5.22.1-9ubuntu0.9",
"5.22.1-9ubuntu0.9+esm1",
"5.22.1-9ubuntu0.9+esm2"
]
}
],
"aliases": [],
"details": "(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.",
"id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2016-1238",
"modified": "2026-06-24T13:04:51Z",
"published": "2016-07-25T00:00:00Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "REPORT",
"url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-1238"
},
{
"type": "REPORT",
"url": "http://ledgersmbdev.blogspot.ca/2016/07/notes-on-security-separation-of.html"
},
{
"type": "REPORT",
"url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-1238"
}
],
"related": [],
"schema_version": "1.7.0",
"severity": [
{
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
},
{
"score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
},
{
"score": "medium",
"type": "Ubuntu"
}
],
"upstream": [
"CVE-2016-1238"
]
}
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