CVE-2005-4278
N/A
Published: December 16, 2005 at 11:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:18 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorPerl
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.4%
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.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (6)
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/17232Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOPatch
Source: [email protected]
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200510-14.xmlVDB Entryx_refsource_VUPEN
Source: [email protected]
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2119Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
NVD-CWE-Other
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