Vulnerability in IBM Aix
CVE-2005-0156
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.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 2.1 (Low). Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.013 (70.7th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 71st percentile — 70.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.013 · newest: 0.013 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- IBM Aix — versions 5.2, 5.3
- Larry Wall Perl — versions 5.8.0, 5.8.1, 5.8.3
- Sgi Propack — versions 3.0
- Trustix Secure Linux — versions 1.5, 2.0, 2.1
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux — versions 3.0
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop — versions 3.0
- Red Hat Fedora Core — versions core_3.0
- SUSE Linux — versions 8.0, 8.1, 8.2
- Ubuntu Linux — versions 4.1
References
- marc.info/ (mailing-list)
- www.digitalmunition.com/DMA[2005-0131b].txt
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/12426 (Patch, vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-105.html (vendor-advisory, Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/14120 (third-party-advisory)
- www.trustix.org/errata/2005/0003/ (vendor-advisory, Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-103.html (vendor-advisory, Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10803 (signature, vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/55314 (third-party-advisory)
- marc.info/ (mailing-list)