CVE-2005-4158

Severity

46%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

106%

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.

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.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.6. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

First reported 19 years ago

2005-12-11 02:03:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-07-20 01:29:00

Affected Software

Todd Miller Sudo 1.6

1.6

Todd Miller Sudo 1.6.1

1.6.1

Todd Miller Sudo 1.6.2

1.6.2

Todd Miller Sudo 1.6.3

1.6.3

Todd Miller Sudo 1.6.3 p7

1.6.3_p7

Todd Miller Sudo 1.6.4

1.6.4

Todd Miller Sudo 1.6.5

1.6.5

Todd Miller Sudo 1.6.6

1.6.6

Todd Miller Sudo 1.6.7

1.6.7

Todd Miller Sudo 1.6.8

1.6.8

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