Insufficient Privilege Management in suidperl and sperl Program by Perl
CVE-1999-0138

Currently unrated

Key Information:

Vendor
IBM
Status
Aix
Linux Kernel
Ews-ux V
Osf 1
Vendor
CVE Published:
26 June 1996

Summary

The suidperl and sperl programs are flawed in their management of root privileges, failing to relinquish these privileges when reverting back to original user IDs. This oversight permits unauthorized users to potentially gain root access, posing significant security risks to systems using these programs.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/CVE-...
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Timeline

  • Vulnerability Reserved

  • Vulnerability published

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