CPANSA-sperl-2000-0703: perl vulnerability

Publisher giterlizzi Document category csaf_security_advisory
Initial release date 2000-10-20T00:00:00 Engine CSAF Perl Toolkit 0.25
Current release date 2000-10-20T00:00:00 Build Date
Current version 1 Status final
CVSS v3.1 Base Score Severity
Original language Language en
Also referred to

Vulnerability Description

suidperl (aka sperl) does not properly cleanse the escape sequence "~!" before calling /bin/mail to send an error report, which allows local users to gain privileges by setting the "interactive" environmental variable and calling suidperl with a filename that contains the escape sequence.

Vulnerabilities

CVE-2000-0703

Vulnerability Description

suidperl (aka sperl) does not properly cleanse the escape sequence "~!" before calling /bin/mail to send an error report, which allows local users to gain privileges by setting the "interactive" environmental variable and calling suidperl with a filename that contains the escape sequence.

Product status

Known affected
Product Score
perl less than 5.6.1
CVSS Version CVSS Vector CVSS Base Score CVSS Base Severity
2.0 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C 7.2 High

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References

Revision history

Version Date of the revision Summary of the revision
1 Fri Oct 20 00:00:00 2000 First release

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