CVE-2005-0156

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2005-02-01
Bugzilla:
1617477: CVE-2005-0156 security flaw

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2005-0156 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (perl) RHSA-2005:103 2005-02-15
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (perl) RHSA-2005:105 2005-02-07

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