SB2016080701 - Privilege escalation in perl5-porters in OpenBSD
Published: August 7, 2016
Security Bulletin ID
SB2016080701
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Local access
Highest impact
Data manipulation
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Insecure search path in perl5-porters (CVE-ID: CVE-2016-1238)
The vulnerability allows a local user to potentially elevate privileges.
The vulnerability exists due to Perl 5 module loads modules from the includes directory array ("@INC") in which the last element is the current directory ("."). A local attacker can place specially crafted modules into world-writable directory and trick the victim to run arbitrary script from this directory.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a local attacker to obtain elevated privileges on the system.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.