CVE-2005-4158

Published: 11 December 2005

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.

Priority

Status

Package	Release	Status
sudo Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	dapper	Released (1.6.8p12-1ubuntu6)
	edgy	Released (1.6.8p12-1ubuntu6)
	feisty	Released (1.6.8p12-1ubuntu6)
	upstream	Needs triage

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-235-1
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-235-2
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2005-4158
NVD
Launchpad
Debian

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