CVE-2005-4158
Sudo before 1.6.8 p12, when the Perl taint flag is off, does not clear the (1) PERLLIB, (2) PERL5LIB, and (3) PERL5OPT environment variables, which allows...
- Published
- Dec 11, 2005
- Updated
- Aug 7, 2024
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Evidence observed
- Nov 11, 2005
Primary CVSS
nvd · CVSS 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:PLow · next 30 days
- Percentile
- 63.1%
- Model date
- Sep 21, 2026
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Summary
Sudo before 1.6.8 p12, when the Perl taint flag is off, does not clear the (1) PERLLIB, (2) PERL5LIB, and (3) PERL5OPT environment variables, which allows limited local users to cause a Perl script to include and execute arbitrary library files that have the same name as library files that are included by the script.
Sources
3Charles Morris · linux · Nov 11, 2005
Breno Silva Pinto · linux · Jan 9, 2006
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