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DEBIAN-CVE-2005-4158

DEBIAN-CVE-2005-4158 PUBLISHED CVSS 8.600000381469727 HIGH

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.

Risk Scores

CVSS v4.0
8.600000381469727
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Debian:14sudo0, 0, 0
Debian:13sudo0, 0, 0
Debian:12sudo0, 0, 0
Debian:11sudo0, 0, 0

Timeline

  • Dec 11, 2005 CVE Published
  • Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated
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