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.
CVSS Metrics
- Vector
- AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Access Vector
- local
- Access Cmplx
- low
- Auth
- none
- Confidentiality
- none
- Integrity
- partial
- Availability
- none
- Weaknesses
- NVD-CWE-Other
Metadata
- Primary Vendor
- LARRY_WALL
- Published
- 2/7/2005
- Last Modified
- 4/3/2025
- Source
- NIST NVD
- Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.
Affected Products
larry_wall : perllarry_wall : perllarry_wall : perllarry_wall : perllarry_wall : perllarry_wall : perllarry_wall : perllarry_wall : perllarry_wall : perllarry_wall : perlsgi : propackibm : aixibm : aixredhat : enterprise_linuxredhat : enterprise_linuxredhat : enterprise_linuxredhat : enterprise_linux_desktopredhat : fedora_coresuse : suse_linuxsuse : suse_linuxsuse : suse_linuxsuse : suse_linuxsuse : suse_linuxsuse : suse_linuxsuse : suse_linuxsuse : suse_linuxtrustix : secure_linuxtrustix : secure_linuxtrustix : secure_linuxtrustix : secure_linuxubuntu : ubuntu_linuxubuntu : ubuntu_linux
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