CVE-2005-4278

published 2005-12-16

CVE-2005-4278: Untrusted search path vulnerability in Perl before 5.8.7-r1 on Gentoo Linux allows local users in the portage group to gain privileges via a malicious shared…

Priority P4 20 high 7.2 CVSS 2.0

AV L AC L Au N C C I C A C

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Perl before 5.8.7-r1 on Gentoo Linux allows local users in the portage group to gain privileges via a malicious shared object in the Portage temporary build directory, which is part of the RUNPATH.

Affected

18 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	perl	—	—
larry_wall	perl	<= 5.8.6	—
larry_wall	perl	—	—
larry_wall	perl	—	—
larry_wall	perl	—	—
larry_wall	perl	—	—
larry_wall	perl	—	—
larry_wall	perl	—	—
larry_wall	perl	—	—
larry_wall	perl	—	—
larry_wall	perl	—	—
larry_wall	perl	—	—
larry_wall	perl	—	—
larry_wall	perl	—	—
larry_wall	perl	—	—
larry_wall	perl	—	—
larry_wall	perl	—	—
larry_wall	perl	—	—

CVSS provenance

nvd v2.0 7.2 HIGH AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

vendor_debian 7.2 LOW

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