CVEvulnerability

CVE-2005-0156

2.1 LOW Published 2005-02-07 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2005-02-07
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

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.

Affected configurations

• larry wall perl 5.8.0 • larry wall perl 5.8.1 • larry wall perl 5.8.3 • larry wall perl 5.8.4 • larry wall perl 5.8.4.1 • larry wall perl 5.8.4.2 • larry wall perl 5.8.4.2.3 • larry wall perl 5.8.4.3 • larry wall perl 5.8.4.4 • larry wall perl 5.8.4.5 • sgi propack 3.0 • ibm aix 5.2 • ibm aix 5.3 • redhat enterprise linux 3.0 • redhat enterprise linux desktop 3.0 • redhat fedora core core 3.0 • suse suse linux 8.0 • suse suse linux 8.1 • suse suse linux 8.2 • suse suse linux 9.0 • suse suse linux 9.1 • suse suse linux 9.2 • trustix secure linux 1.5 • trustix secure linux 2.0 • trustix secure linux 2.1 • trustix secure linux 2.2 • ubuntu ubuntu linux 4.1

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