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CVE-2002-1323

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2002-12-11 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Safe.pm 2.0.7 and earlier, when used in Perl 5.8.0 and earlier, may allow attackers to break out of safe compartments in (1) Safe::reval or (2) Safe::rdo using a redefined @_ variable, which is not reset between successive calls.

Affected products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 2.1
• RedHat Linux Advanced Workstation: 2.1
• Safe.Pm: 2.0_6, 2.0_7
• Sco Open Unix: 8.0
• Sco Unixware: 7.1.2, 7.1.3
• Sgi Irix: 6.5, 6.5.1, 6.5.2, 6.5.3, 6.5.4, 6.5.5 (+25)
• Sun Linux: 5.0.7
• Sun Solaris: 8.0, 9.0
• Sunos: 5.8

References

• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2002-q4/0061.html
• http://bugs6.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=17744
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=104005919814869&w=2
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=104033126305252&w=2
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=104040175522502&w=2
• http://use.perl.org/articles/02/10/06/1118222.shtml?tid=5
• http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-208
• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10574.php
• http://www.osvdb.org/2183

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