Buffer Overflow in PerlIO Implementation in Perl 5.8.0 with setuid Support

CVE-2005-0156 · LOW Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

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.

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