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GSD-2016-6185

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2023-12-13 01:21
Details
The XSLoader::load method in XSLoader in Perl does not properly locate .so files when called in a string eval, which might allow local users to execute arbitrary code via a Trojan horse library under the current working directory.
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