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CVE-2005-0156

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered Topic
2005-02-02 perl -- vulnerabilities in PERLIO_DEBUG handling

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Details

Type Candidate
Name CVE-2005-0156
Phase Assigned(20050127)

Description

Buffer 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.

References

Source Reference
FULLDISC 20050207 DMA[2005-0131b] - 'Setuid Perl PERLIO_DEBUG
MISC http://www.digitalmunition.com/DMA[2005-0131b].txt
CONECTIVA CLSA-2006:1056
FEDORA FLSA-2006:152845
GENTOO GLSA-200502-13
MANDRAKE MDKSA-2005:031
REDHAT RHSA-2005:103
REDHAT RHSA-2005:105
TRUSTIX 2005-0003
BUGTRAQ 20050202 [USN-72-1] Perl vulnerabilities
BID 12426
OVAL oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10803
SECUNIA 14120
SECUNIA 55314
XF perl-perliodebug-bo(19208)