CVE-2005-4158 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2005-4158

Sudo before 1.6.8 p12, when the Perl taint flag is...

Vulnerability Description

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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Software

sudo
Vulnerable Versions:
1.5.6, 1.5.7, 1.5.8, 1.5.9, 1.6, 1.6.1, 1.6.2, 1.6.3, 1.6.3_p1, 1.6.3_p2, 1.6.3_p3, 1.6.3_p4, 1.6.3_p5, 1.6.3_p6, 1.6.3_p7, 1.6.4, 1.6.4_p1, 1.6.4_p2, 1.6.5, 1.6.5_p1, 1.6.5_p2, 1.6.6, 1.6.7, 1.6.7_p5, 1.6.8, 1.6.8_p1, 1.6.8_p5, 1.6.8_p7, 1.6.8_p8, 1.6.8_p9

Timeline

Official Publish: December 11th, 2005
Last Modified: August 7th, 2024
Added to House: July 18th, 2026

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Weaknesses (CWE)

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MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

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