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.

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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2005-0157 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-72-1 Perl vulnerabilities
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T21:05:24.911Z

Reserved: 2005-01-27T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2005-0156

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2005-02-07T05:00:00.000

Modified: 2025-04-03T01:03:51.193

Link: CVE-2005-0156

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2005-02-01T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2005-0156 - Bugzilla

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