CVE-2005-4278

Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 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: 2005-12-16 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Perl before 5.8.7-r1 on Gentoo Linux allows local users in the portage group to gain privileges via a malicious shared object in the Portage temporary build directory, which is part of the RUNPATH.

Affected products

Larry Wall Perl: through 5.8.6; 5.3, 5.4, 5.4.5, 5.5, 5.5.3, 5.6.1 (+10)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/17232
http://secunia.com/advisories/55314
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200510-14.xml
http://www.osvdb.org/20086
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15120
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2119
http://secunia.com/advisories/17232
http://secunia.com/advisories/55314
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200510-14.xml
http://www.osvdb.org/20086
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15120
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2119

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