CVE-2005-0156 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-525601
  • published7 Feb 2005
  • disclosed7 Feb 2005

Introduced: 7 Feb 2005

CVE-2005-0156  (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.

Buffer overflow in the PerlIO implementation in Perl 5.8.0, when installed with setuid support (sperl), allows local users to execute arbitrary code by setting the PERLIO_DEBUG variable and executing a Perl script whose full pathname contains a long directory tree.

CVSS Scores

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