CVE-2016-1238

HighCVSS 7.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 7.8/10CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-264

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Aug 2, 2016
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

Related CVEs from 2016

CVE-2016-12399.8duck before 0.10 did not properly handle loading of untrusted code from the current directory.CVE-2016-12407.8The Tomcat init script in the tomcat7 package before 7.0.56-3+deb8u4 and tomcat8 package before 8.0.14-1+deb8u3 on Debian jessie and the tom CVE-2016-12415.3Tryton 3.x before 3.2.17, 3.4.x before 3.4.14, 3.6.x before 3.6.12, 3.8.x before 3.8.8, and 4.x before 4.0.4 allow remote authenticated user CVE-2016-12424.4file_open in Tryton before 3.2.17, 3.4.x before 3.4.14, 3.6.x before 3.6.12, 3.8.x before 3.8.8, and 4.x before 4.0.4 allows remote authenti CVE-2016-12439.8Stack-based buffer overflow in the extractTree function in unADF allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long pathname.CVE-2016-12448.8The extractTree function in unADF allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via shell metacharacters in a directory name in an adf f CVE-2016-12459.8It was discovered that the zebra daemon in Quagga before 1.0.20161017 suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when processing IPv6 Neigh CVE-2016-12467.5Buffer overflow in the DBD::mysql module before 4.037 for Perl allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via v CVE-2016-12477.8The nginx package before 1.6.2-5+deb8u3 on Debian jessie, the nginx packages before 1.4.6-1ubuntu3.6 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, before 1.10.0-0ubu CVE-2016-12487.8vim before patch 8.0.0056 does not properly validate values for the 'filetype', 'syntax' and 'keymap' options, which may result in the execu CVE-2016-12495.9The DBD::mysql module before 4.039 for Perl, when using server-side prepared statement support, allows attackers to cause a denial of servic CVE-2016-12518.1There is a vulnerability of type use-after-free affecting DBD::mysql (aka DBD-mysql or the Database Interface (DBI) MySQL driver for Perl) 3