FKIE_CVE-2016-2381
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2016-04-08 15:59 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:43
Severity
Summary
Perl might allow context-dependent attackers to bypass the taint protection mechanism in a child process via duplicate environment variables in envp.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| perl | perl | * | |
| debian | debian_linux | 7.0 | |
| debian | debian_linux | 8.0 | |
| oracle | communications_billing_and_revenue_management | 7.5 | |
| oracle | configuration_manager | * | |
| oracle | configuration_manager | 12.1.2.0.6 | |
| oracle | database_server | 11.2.0.4 | |
| oracle | database_server | 12.1.0.2 | |
| oracle | database_server | 12.2.0.1 | |
| oracle | database_server | 18c | |
| oracle | database_server | 19c | |
| oracle | enterprise_manager_base_platform | 13.2.0.0.0 | |
| oracle | enterprise_manager_base_platform | 13.3.0.0.0 | |
| oracle | timesten_in-memory_database | * | |
| oracle | solaris | 11.3 | |
| opensuse | opensuse | 13.2 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 12.04 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 14.04 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 15.10 |
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