CVE-2016-6185: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The XSLoader::load method in XSLoader in Perl does not properly locate .so files when called in a string eval, which might allow local users to execute arbitrary code via a Trojan horse library under the current working directory.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 12.04 only; version 14.04 only; version 16.04 only; version 17.10 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 22 only; version 23 only; version 24 only
• Oracle Solaris: version 10 only; version 11.3 only
• Perl Perl: from 5.23.0, before 5.24.1 (fixed in 5.24.1); from 5.25.0, before 5.25.3 (fixed in 5.25.3)

Published 2016-08-02. Last modified 2026-06-17.