High
Security advisory
Perl might allow context-dependent attackers to bypass the taint protection mechanism in a child process via duplicate environment variables in envp.
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2016-2381
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- 1 Nov 2026, 06:30 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Perl might allow context-dependent attackers to bypass the taint protection mechanism in a child process via duplicate environment variables in envp.
osv:CVE-2016-2381
Complete source record
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