CVEvulnerability

CVE-2005-4158

4.6 MEDIUM Published 2005-12-11 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2005-12-11
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

Sudo 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.

Affected configurations

• todd miller sudo 1.5.6 • todd miller sudo 1.5.7 • todd miller sudo 1.5.8 • todd miller sudo 1.5.9 • todd miller sudo 1.6 • todd miller sudo 1.6.1 • todd miller sudo 1.6.2 • todd miller sudo 1.6.3 • todd miller sudo 1.6.3 p1 • todd miller sudo 1.6.3 p2 • todd miller sudo 1.6.3 p3 • todd miller sudo 1.6.3 p4 • todd miller sudo 1.6.3 p5 • todd miller sudo 1.6.3 p6 • todd miller sudo 1.6.3 p7 • todd miller sudo 1.6.4 • todd miller sudo 1.6.4 p1 • todd miller sudo 1.6.4 p2 • todd miller sudo 1.6.5 • todd miller sudo 1.6.5 p1 • todd miller sudo 1.6.5 p2 • todd miller sudo 1.6.6 • todd miller sudo 1.6.7 • todd miller sudo 1.6.7 p5 • todd miller sudo 1.6.8 • todd miller sudo 1.6.8 p1 • todd miller sudo 1.6.8 p5 • todd miller sudo 1.6.8 p7 • todd miller sudo 1.6.8 p8 • todd miller sudo 1.6.8 p9

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