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>> Sudo Perl Environment Handling Command Execution Vulnerability
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Title : Sudo Perl Environment Handling Command Execution Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2005-2386
CVE ID : CVE-2005-4158
Rated as : Low Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : No
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2005-11-11
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A vulnerability has been identified in Sudo, which could be exploited by local attackers to execute arbitrary commands. This flaw is due to an error when handling the "PERLLIB", "PERL5LIB" and "PERL5OPT" environment variables, which could be exploited by malicious users with sudo access to perl scripts to execute arbitrary perl code on systems where the perl "tainting" option is disabled.
Affected Products
Sudo versions prior to 1.6.8p12
Solution
Upgrade to Sudo version 1.6.8p12 :
http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/download.html
References
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2386
http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/alerts/perl_env.html
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Charles Morris
ChangeLog
2005-11-11 : Initial release
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