CVE-2005-4158 (GCVE-0-2005-4158)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2005-12-11 02:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 23:38
VLAI
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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http://secunia.com/advisories/18549 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
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http://secunia.com/advisories/18102 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
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http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-946 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
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http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/alerts/perl_env.html x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://secunia.com/advisories/17534/ third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
Date Public
2005-11-10 00:00
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