CVE-2005-4278

high

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Perl before 5.8.7-r1 on Gentoo Linux allows local users in the portage group to gain privileges via a malicious shared object in the Portage temporary build directory, which is part of the RUNPATH.

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/17232

http://secunia.com/advisories/55314

http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200510-14.xml

http://www.osvdb.org/20086

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15120

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2119

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2005-12-16

Updated: 2013-10-24

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.2

Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Impact Score: 10

Exploitability Score: 3.9

Severity: HIGH