CVE-2005-0156

Summary

CVECVE-2005-0156
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2005-02-07 05:00:00 UTC
Updated2025-04-03 01:03:51 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

Primary CVSS: v2.0 2.1 from [email protected]

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Partial
Availability
None

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

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
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 Desktop 3.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Fedora Core core_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 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

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Perl SuidPerl Multiple Local Vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
rhn.redhat.com | Red Hat Support af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
404 Not Found af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 fedoranews.org
Home - Conectiva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 distro.conectiva.com.br
Secunia - Advisories - Perl "PERLIO_DEBUG" Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
'[USN-72-1] Perl vulnerabilities' - MARC af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 marc.info
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- Perl: Vulnerabilities in perl-suid wrapper af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.gentoo.org Exploit, Vendor Advisory
'[Full-Disclosure] DMA[2005-0131b] - 'Setuid Perl PERLIO_DEBUG' - MARC af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 marc.info
www.trustix.org/errata/2005/0003 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.trustix.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
Advisories - Mandriva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
rhn.redhat.com | Red Hat Support af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
404 Not Found af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.digitalmunition.com
Security Advisory SA55314 - Oracle Solaris Perl Multiple Vulnerabilities - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Repository / Oval Repository af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 oval.cisecurity.org
MISC:http://www.digitalmunition.com/DMA[2005-0131b].txt MITRE www.digitalmunition.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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