Description
Untrusted search path vulnerability in Perl before 5.8.7-r1 on Gentoo Linux allows local users in the portage group to gain privileges via a malicious shared object in the Portage temporary build directory, which is part of the RUNPATH.
CVSS Metrics
- Vector
- AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Access Vector
- local
- Access Cmplx
- low
- Auth
- none
- Confidentiality
- complete
- Integrity
- complete
- Availability
- complete
- Weaknesses
- NVD-CWE-Other
Metadata
- Primary Vendor
- LARRY_WALL
- Published
- 12/16/2005
- 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 : perllarry_wall : perllarry_wall : perllarry_wall : perllarry_wall : perllarry_wall : perllarry_wall : perllarry_wall : perl
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