suse · CVE-2005-4158

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Priority: medium Published: 2021-05-30 12:34:26 UTC Updated: 2026-04-18 20:42:08 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2005-4158 severity moderate: SUSE including 12 source package names (sudo-1.9.15p5-1.3, sudo-1.9.15p5-slfo.1.1_1.2, …), 12 product×package rows across 4 product lines (SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.0, SUSE Linux Micro 6.0, SUSE Linux Micro 6.1, openSUSE Tumbleweed): Fixed 12.

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.

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