| Name | CVE-2016-1238 |
| Description | (1) cpan/Archive-Tar/bin/ptar, (2) cpan/Archive-Tar/bin/ptardiff, (3) cpan/Archive-Tar/bin/ptargrep, (4) cpan/CPAN/scripts/cpan, (5) cpan/Digest-SHA/shasum, (6) cpan/Encode/bin/enc2xs, (7) cpan/Encode/bin/encguess, (8) cpan/Encode/bin/piconv, (9) cpan/Encode/bin/ucmlint, (10) cpan/Encode/bin/unidump, (11) cpan/ExtUtils-MakeMaker/bin/instmodsh, (12) cpan/IO-Compress/bin/zipdetails, (13) cpan/JSON-PP/bin/json_pp, (14) cpan/Test-Harness/bin/prove, (15) dist/ExtUtils-ParseXS/lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp, (16) dist/Module-CoreList/corelist, (17) ext/Pod-Html/bin/pod2html, (18) utils/c2ph.PL, (19) utils/h2ph.PL, (20) utils/h2xs.PL, (21) utils/libnetcfg.PL, (22) utils/perlbug.PL, (23) utils/perldoc.PL, (24) utils/perlivp.PL, and (25) utils/splain.PL in Perl 5.x before 5.22.3-RC2 and 5.24 before 5.24.1-RC2 do not properly remove . (period) characters from the end of the includes directory array, which might allow local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse module under the current working directory. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-1578-1, DLA-565-1, DLA-584-1, DSA-3628-1 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| libsys-syslog-perl (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 0.33-1+deb8u1 | fixed |
| perl (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 5.20.2-3+deb8u14 | fixed |
| stretch (security) | 5.24.1-3+deb9u5 | fixed | |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 5.24.1-3+deb9u8 | fixed | |
| buster, buster (lts) | 5.28.1-6+deb10u2 | fixed | |
| bullseye | 5.32.1-4+deb11u3 | fixed | |
| bullseye (security) | 5.32.1-4+deb11u4 | fixed | |
| bookworm | 5.36.0-7+deb12u1 | fixed | |
| sid, trixie | 5.40.0-7 | fixed | |
| spamassassin (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 3.4.2-0+deb8u4 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| libsys-syslog-perl | source | wheezy | 0.29-1+deb7u1 | DLA-584-1 | ||
| libsys-syslog-perl | source | jessie | 0.33-1+deb8u1 | |||
| libsys-syslog-perl | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | |||
| perl | source | wheezy | 5.14.2-21+deb7u4 | DLA-565-1 | ||
| perl | source | jessie | 5.20.2-3+deb8u6 | DSA-3628-1 | ||
| perl | source | (unstable) | 5.22.2-3 | |||
| spamassassin | source | jessie | 3.4.2-0+deb8u1 | DLA-1578-1 |
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.perl.perl5.porters/160507
Although more modules and scripts are affected by similar issue and mentioned
in the DSA/DLA, the CVE is for src:perl (and libsys-syslog-perl beeing dual-lived)
and thus not adding more source packages here.