CVE-2016-2381 Security feature bypass in n/a

What is CVE-2016-2381?

CVE-2016-2381 is a high-severity vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 8 Apr 2016. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-2381?

It affects 10 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Opensuse Opensuse, Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management, Oracle Configuration Manager, Oracle Database Server and 4 more.

How do I fix CVE-2016-2381?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2016-2381 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-2381 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2016-2381, DSA-3501-1, GHSA-mmf9-wh8f-2qv3, MGASA-2016-0099, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-2381.