A vulnerability has been identified in ActiveState ActivePerl, which could be exploited by malicious users to obtain elevated privileges. This flaw is due to insecure permissions being set on certain directories, which could be exploited by local attackers to execute arbitrary commands with the privileges of another user by creating a malicious "sitecustomize.pl" file in the "site/lib" directory.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Kreej
ChangeLog
2006-06-05 : Initial release
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