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Unscored Public exploit CVE-2005-4158 EUVD-2005-4153GHSA-h6pw-5prw-wv25

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 variable…

Published Dec 11, 2005 · Updated Aug 7, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Package: sudo Ecosystem: Debian

Description

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.

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

Debian

Security tracker ↗
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 sudo 1.6.8p12-1 —
Debian 13 sudo 1.6.8p12-1 —
Debian 12 sudo 1.6.8p12-1 —
Debian 3.1 sudo 1.6.8p7-1.4 DSA-946-2
Debian 3.0 sudo 1.6.6-1.6 DSA-946-2

openSUSE

Security tracker ↗
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed sudo 1.9.7p2-1.4 openSUSE-SU-2024:11413-1

Public exploits

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Exploit-DB 3

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Advisories 2

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