CVE-2005-0155 Affecting perl package, versions <5.8.4-6


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (1st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-PERL-514748
  • published2 May 2005
  • disclosed2 May 2005

Introduced: 2 May 2005

CVE-2005-0155  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 perl to version 5.8.4-6 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream perl package and not the perl package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:11 relevant fixed versions and status.

The PerlIO implementation in Perl 5.8.0, when installed with setuid support (sperl), allows local users to create arbitrary files via the PERLIO_DEBUG variable.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1