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CVE-2005-0077

• Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2005-05-02 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The DBI library (libdbi-perl) for Perl allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary PID file.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 3.0
• gentoo Linux: all versions
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 4.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 4.0
• Ubuntu Linux: 4.10

References

• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110667936707597&w=2
• http://secunia.com/advisories/14015
• http://secunia.com/advisories/14050
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1013007
• http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-658
• http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200501-38.xml
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:030
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-072.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/426530/30/6600/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12360
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/19068
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10552

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