CVE-2000-0703

CVE-2000-0703 affects suidperl (sperl). The vulnerability arises because suidperl does not properly cleanse the escape sequence "~!" before invoking /bin/mail to report errors. This enables local users to gain privileges by setting the interactive environmental variable and running suidperl with ...

CVE-2000-0703

suidperl aka sperl does not properly cleanse the escape sequence "!" before calling /bin/mail to send an error report, which allows local users to gain privileges by setting the "interactive" environmental variable and calling suidperl with a filename that contains the escape sequence...

SUIDPerl 5.00503 - Mail Shell Escape (1)

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1547/info The interaction between some security checks performed by suidperl, the setuid version of perl, and the /bin/mail program creates a scenario that allows local malicious users to execute commands with root privileges. The suidperl program perform...