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CVE-2000-0703
CVE information
Published
Last Modified
CVSSv2.0 Severity
Impact Analysis
Description
suidperl (aka sperl) does not properly cleanse the escape sequence "~!" before calling /bin/mail to send an error report, which allows local users to gain privileges by setting the "interactive" environmental variable and calling suidperl with a filename that contains the escape sequence..
CVSSv2.0 Score
- Severity
- High
- Base Score
- 7.2/10
- Exploit Score
- 3.9/10
- Access Vector
- Local
- Access Complexity
- Low
- Authentication Required
- None
- Impact Score
- 10/10
- Confidentiality Impact
- Complete
- Availability Impact
- Complete
- Integrity Impact
- Complete
Products Affected
| CPE | Affected | Vulnerable | Excluding | Edit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| cpe:2.3:a:larry_wall:perl:5.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
| cpe:2.3:a:larry_wall:perl:5.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
| cpe:2.3:a:larry_wall:perl:5.5.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
| cpe:2.3:a:larry_wall:perl:5.4.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - |
References
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-08/0022.html
- http://www.calderasystems.com/support/security/advisories/CSSA-2000-026.0.txt
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1547
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/suse_security_announce_59.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2000-048.html
- http://www.turbolinux.com/pipermail/tl-security-announce/2000-August/000017.html
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-08/0153.html
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-08/0086.html
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-08/0113.html