7.5
CVSSv2

CVE-2001-0458

Published: 27/06/2001 Updated: 19/12/2017
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 10
VMScore: 668
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

Multiple buffer overflows in ePerl prior to 2.2.14-0.7 allow local and remote malicious users to execute arbitrary commands.

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ralf s. engelschall eperl 2.2.12

ralf s. engelschall eperl 2.2.13

debian debian linux 2.2

mandrakesoft mandrake linux 7.1

mandrakesoft mandrake linux 7.2

suse suse linux 6.3

suse suse linux 6.4

suse suse linux 7.0

suse suse linux 7.1

Vendor Advisories

Fumitoshi Ukai and Denis Barbier have found several potential buffer overflow bugs in our version of ePerl as distributed in all of our distributions When eperl is installed setuid root, it can switch to the UID/GID of the scripts owner Although Debian doesn't ship the program setuid root, this is a useful feature which people may have activated ...