CVE-2005-4158

Publication date 11 December 2005

Last updated 24 July 2024


Ubuntu priority

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.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
sudo 7.04 feisty
Fixed 1.6.8p12-1ubuntu6
6.10 edgy
Fixed 1.6.8p12-1ubuntu6
6.06 LTS dapper
Fixed 1.6.8p12-1ubuntu6

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