PT-2000-1636 · Perl · Suidperl

Published 2000-10-20 · Updated 2008-09-10 · CVE-2000-0703

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.2

High

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions suidperl (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is related to suidperl not properly cleansing the escape sequence "~!" before calling /bin/mail to send an error report. This allows local users to gain privileges by setting the interactive environmental variable and calling suidperl with a filename that contains the escape sequence.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

Related Identifiers

CVE-2000-0703

Affected Products

Suidperl

References · 12

• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/20141 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/20142 · Exploit
• 🔥 http://securityfocus.com/bid/1547 · Exploit
• 🔥 http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-08/0022.html · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2000-0703 · Security Note
• http://calderasystems.com/support/security/advisories/CSSA-2000-026.0.txt · Vendor Advisory
• http://redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2000-048.html · Note
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-08/0113.html · Note
• http://novell.com/linux/security/advisories/suse_security_announce_59.html · Note
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-08/0153.html · Note
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-08/0086.html · Note
• http://turbolinux.com/pipermail/tl-security-announce/2000-August/000017.html · Note