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CVE-2005-4158

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2005-12-11 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Sudo before 1.6.8 p12, when the Perl taint flag is off, does not clear the (1) PERLLIB, (2) PERL5LIB, and (3) PERL5OPT environment variables, which allows limited local users to cause a Perl script to include and execute arbitrary library files that have the same name as library files that are included by the script.

Affected products

• Todd Miller Sudo: 1.5.6, 1.5.7, 1.5.8, 1.5.9, 1.6, 1.6.1 (+24)

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/17534/
• http://secunia.com/advisories/18102
• http://secunia.com/advisories/18156
• http://secunia.com/advisories/18308
• http://secunia.com/advisories/18463
• http://secunia.com/advisories/18549
• http://secunia.com/advisories/18558
• http://secunia.com/advisories/21692
• http://securitytracker.com/alerts/2005/Nov/1015192.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-946
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:234
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:159

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