CVE-2016-6185 Path traversal in n/a

What is CVE-2016-6185?

CVE-2016-6185 is a high-severity path traversal vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 2 Aug 2016. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-6185?

It affects 5 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Fedoraproject Fedora, Oracle Solaris, Perl Perl.

How do I fix CVE-2016-6185?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2016-6185 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-6185 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
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2016-6185, GHSA-6f2m-6xw2-h922, MGASA-2016-0299, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-6185.