CVE-2005-0156

Summary

CVECVE-2005-0156
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2005-02-07 05:00:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 01:57:00 UTC
DescriptionBuffer overflow in the PerlIO implementation in Perl 5.8.0, when installed with setuid support (sperl), allows local users to execute arbitrary code by setting the PERLIO_DEBUG variable and executing a Perl script whose full pathname contains a long directory tree.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Ibm Aix 5.2 All All All
Operating System Ibm Aix 5.3 All All All
Operating System Ibm Aix 5.2 All All All
Operating System Ibm Aix 5.3 All All All
Application Larry Wall Perl 5.8.0 All All All
Application Larry Wall Perl 5.8.1 All All All
Application Larry Wall Perl 5.8.3 All All All
Application Larry Wall Perl 5.8.4 All All All
Application Larry Wall Perl 5.8.4.1 All All All
Application Larry Wall Perl 5.8.4.2 All All All
Application Larry Wall Perl 5.8.4.2.3 All All All
Application Larry Wall Perl 5.8.4.3 All All All
Application Larry Wall Perl 5.8.4.4 All All All
Application Larry Wall Perl 5.8.4.5 All All All
Application Larry Wall Perl 5.8.0 All All All
Application Larry Wall Perl 5.8.1 All All All
Application Larry Wall Perl 5.8.3 All All All
Application Larry Wall Perl 5.8.4 All All All
Application Larry Wall Perl 5.8.4.1 All All All
Application Larry Wall Perl 5.8.4.2 All All All
Application Larry Wall Perl 5.8.4.2.3 All All All
Application Larry Wall Perl 5.8.4.3 All All All
Application Larry Wall Perl 5.8.4.4 All All All
Application Larry Wall Perl 5.8.4.5 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 3.0 All advanced_server All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 3.0 All enterprise_server All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 3.0 All workstation_server All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 3.0 All advanced_server All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 3.0 All enterprise_server All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 3.0 All workstation_server All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop 3.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop 3.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Fedora Core core_3.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Fedora Core core_3.0 All All All
Application Sgi Propack 3.0 All All All
Application Sgi Propack 3.0 All All All
Operating System Suse Suse Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Suse Suse Linux 8.0 All i386 All
Operating System Suse Suse Linux 8.1 All All All
Operating System Suse Suse Linux 8.2 All All All
Operating System Suse Suse Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Suse Suse Linux 9.0 All x86_64 All
Operating System Suse Suse Linux 9.1 All All All
Operating System Suse Suse Linux 9.2 All All All
Operating System Suse Suse Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Suse Suse Linux 8.0 All i386 All
Operating System Suse Suse Linux 8.1 All All All
Operating System Suse Suse Linux 8.2 All All All
Operating System Suse Suse Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Suse Suse Linux 9.0 All x86_64 All
Operating System Suse Suse Linux 9.1 All All All
Operating System Suse Suse Linux 9.2 All All All
Operating System Trustix Secure Linux 1.5 All All All
Operating System Trustix Secure Linux 2.0 All All All
Operating System Trustix Secure Linux 2.1 All All All
Operating System Trustix Secure Linux 2.2 All All All
Operating System Trustix Secure Linux 1.5 All All All
Operating System Trustix Secure Linux 2.0 All All All
Operating System Trustix Secure Linux 2.1 All All All
Operating System Trustix Secure Linux 2.2 All All All
Operating System Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 4.1 All ia64 All
Operating System Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 4.1 All ppc All
Operating System Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 4.1 All ia64 All
Operating System Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 4.1 All ppc All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Secunia - Advisories - Perl "PERLIO_DEBUG" Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities SECUNIA secunia.com
Security Advisory SA55314 - Oracle Solaris Perl Multiple Vulnerabilities - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
Repository / Oval Repository OVAL oval.cisecurity.org
'[USN-72-1] Perl vulnerabilities' - MARC BUGTRAQ marc.info
2005-0003 TRUSTIX www.trustix.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
www.digitalmunition.com/DMA[2005-0131b].txt MISC www.digitalmunition.com Broken Link
Perl SuidPerl Multiple Local Vulnerabilities BID www.securityfocus.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
IBM X-Force Exchange XF exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
'[Full-Disclosure] DMA[2005-0131b] - 'Setuid Perl PERLIO_DEBUG' - MARC FULLDISC marc.info
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- Perl: Vulnerabilities in perl-suid wrapper GENTOO www.gentoo.org Exploit, Vendor Advisory
404 Not Found www.digitalmunition.com
rhn.redhat.com | Red Hat Support REDHAT www.redhat.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
rhn.redhat.com | Red Hat Support REDHAT www.redhat.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
Home - Conectiva CONECTIVA distro.conectiva.com.br
404 Not Found FEDORA fedoranews.org
Advisories - Mandriva MANDRAKE www.mandriva.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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