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perl5 -- taint mechanism bypass vulnerability

Affected packages
		perl5	<	5.18.4_21
5.20.0	<=	perl5	<	5.20.3_12
5.22.0	<=	perl5	<	5.22.1_8
5.18.0	<=	perl5.18	<	5.18.4_21
5.20.0	<=	perl5.20	<	5.20.3_12
5.22.0	<=	perl5.22	<	5.22.1_8
0	<=	perl

Details

VuXML ID	d9f99491-1656-11e6-94fa-002590263bf5
Discovery	2016-04-08
Entry	2016-05-10
Modified	2016-08-22

MITRE reports:

Perl might allow context-dependent attackers to bypass the taint protection mechanism in a child process via duplicate environment variables in envp.

[source]

References

CVE Name	CVE-2016-2381
FreeBSD PR	ports/208879