{"id":"USN-2916-1","summary":"perl vulnerabilities","details":"It was discovered that Perl incorrectly handled certain regular expressions\nwith an invalid backreference. An attacker could use this issue to cause\nPerl to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute\narbitrary code. (CVE-2013-7422)\n\nMarkus Vervier discovered that Perl incorrectly handled nesting in the\nData::Dumper module. An attacker could use this issue to cause Perl to\nconsume memory and crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2014-4330)\n\nStephane Chazelas discovered that Perl incorrectly handled duplicate\nenvironment variables. An attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass\nthe taint protection mechanism. (CVE-2016-2381)\n","modified":"2026-04-22T09:21:33.388938Z","published":"2016-03-02T13:37:19Z","related":["UBUNTU-CVE-2013-7422","UBUNTU-CVE-2014-4330","UBUNTU-CVE-2016-2381"],"upstream":["CVE-2013-7422","CVE-2014-4330","CVE-2016-2381","UBUNTU-CVE-2013-7422","UBUNTU-CVE-2014-4330","UBUNTU-CVE-2016-2381"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2916-1"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2013-7422"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-4330"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-2381"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"perl","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:14.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/perl@5.18.2-2ubuntu1.1?arch=source&distro=trusty"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"5.18.2-2ubuntu1.1"}]}],"versions":["5.14.2-21build1","5.18.1-4","5.18.1-4build1","5.18.1-5","5.18.2-2","5.18.2-2ubuntu1"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_name":"libcgi-fast-perl","binary_version":"5.18.2-2ubuntu1.1"},{"binary_name":"libperl5.18","binary_version":"5.18.2-2ubuntu1.1"},{"binary_name":"perl","binary_version":"5.18.2-2ubuntu1.1"},{"binary_name":"perl-base","binary_version":"5.18.2-2ubuntu1.1"},{"binary_name":"perl-debug","binary_version":"5.18.2-2ubuntu1.1"},{"binary_name":"perl-modules","binary_version":"5.18.2-2ubuntu1.1"}],"availability":"No subscription required"},"database_specific":{"cves_map":{"ecosystem":"Ubuntu:14.04:LTS","cves":[{"id":"CVE-2013-7422","severity":[{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"low"}]},{"id":"CVE-2014-4330","severity":[{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"low"}]},{"id":"CVE-2016-2381","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N"},{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N"},{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"medium"}]}]},"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-2916-1.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5"}