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Gentoo: GLSA-200503-14 Critical: Ruby-SUID File Tampering Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey February 11, 2005
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Critical security flaws identified in Gentoo's perl-suid interface pose risks of file manipulation and remote code execution.
Vulnerabilities leading to file overwriting and code execution with elevated privileges have been discovered in the perl-suid wrapper.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200502-13 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: Perl: Vulnerabilities in perl-suid wrapper Date: February 11, 2005 Bugs: #80460 ID: 200502-13

Synopsis ======= Vulnerabilities leading to file overwriting and code execution with elevated privileges have been discovered in the perl-suid wrapper.
Background ========= Perl is a stable, cross-platform programming language created by Larry Wall. The perl-suid wrapper allows the use of setuid perl scripts, i.e. user-callable Perl scripts which have elevated privileges. This function is enabled only if you have the perlsuid USE flag set.
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