CVE-2005-4158

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Summary

CVECVE-2005-4158
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2005-12-11 02:03:00 UTC
Updated2025-04-03 01:03:51 UTC
DescriptionSudo 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 4.6 from [email protected]

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

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

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

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

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

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Todd Miller Sudo 1.5.6 All All All
Application Todd Miller Sudo 1.5.7 All All All
Application Todd Miller Sudo 1.5.8 All All All
Application Todd Miller Sudo 1.5.9 All All All
Application Todd Miller Sudo 1.6 All All All
Application Todd Miller Sudo 1.6.1 All All All
Application Todd Miller Sudo 1.6.2 All All All
Application Todd Miller Sudo 1.6.3 All All All
Application Todd Miller Sudo 1.6.3_p1 All All All
Application Todd Miller Sudo 1.6.3_p2 All All All
Application Todd Miller Sudo 1.6.3_p3 All All All
Application Todd Miller Sudo 1.6.3_p4 All All All
Application Todd Miller Sudo 1.6.3_p5 All All All
Application Todd Miller Sudo 1.6.3_p6 All All All
Application Todd Miller Sudo 1.6.3_p7 All All All
Application Todd Miller Sudo 1.6.4 All All All
Application Todd Miller Sudo 1.6.4_p1 All All All
Application Todd Miller Sudo 1.6.4_p2 All All All
Application Todd Miller Sudo 1.6.5 All All All
Application Todd Miller Sudo 1.6.5_p1 All All All
Application Todd Miller Sudo 1.6.5_p2 All All All
Application Todd Miller Sudo 1.6.6 All All All
Application Todd Miller Sudo 1.6.7 All All All
Application Todd Miller Sudo 1.6.7_p5 All All All
Application Todd Miller Sudo 1.6.8 All All All
Application Todd Miller Sudo 1.6.8_p1 All All All
Application Todd Miller Sudo 1.6.8_p5 All All All
Application Todd Miller Sudo 1.6.8_p7 All All All
Application Todd Miller Sudo 1.6.8_p8 All All All
Application Todd Miller Sudo 1.6.8_p9 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

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

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Advisories - Mandriva Linux af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
usn/usn-235-1 - Ubuntu Linux af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com
Webmail - OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com
Perl scripts run via Sudo can be subverted af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.sudo.ws Patch, Vendor Advisory
Security Announcement af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.novell.com
Advisories - Mandriva Linux af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-946-2 sudo af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org
www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0002 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.trustix.org
Secunia - Advisories - Mandriva update for sudo af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Secunia - Advisories - Fedora update for sudo af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Debian update for sudo - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Secunia - Advisories - Sudo Perl Environment Cleaning Privilege Escalation Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
Mandriva update for sudo - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
SUSE update for multiple packages - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
SecurityTracker.com Archives - Sudo Input Validation Flaw in Perl-related Environment Variables Lets Certain Local Users Execute Arbitrary Perl Code af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 securitytracker.com Patch
Trustix update for multiple packages - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Sudo Perl Environment Variable Handling Security Bypass Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Exploit, Patch
Secunia - Advisories - Ubuntu update for sudo af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2008-01-24Mark J CoxWe do not consider this to be a security issue. http:bugzilla.redhat.combugzillashow_bug.cgi?id=139478#c1
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