Title: Multiple Vendor suidperl Overflow Vulnerability
Severity: MODERATE
Description:
Several buffer overflows were found in the Perl helper application 'suidperl' or 'sperl'. When this program is installed setuid root the overflows may lead to a local root compromise.
Affected Products:
- BSDI BSD/OS 2.1.0
- BSDI BSD/OS 3.0.0
- Larry Wall Perl 5.0.0 03
- RedHat Linux 4.0.0
- RedHat Linux 4.1.0
- RedHat Linux 4.2.0
- SGI Freeware 1.0.0
- SGI Freeware 2.0.0
References:
- Perl: Perl Home Page
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