Red Hat Security Advisory - Under certain conditions, suidperl will attempt to send mail to the local superuser account using /bin/mail. A properly formatted exploit script can use this facility, along with mailx's tendency to inherit settings from the environment, to gain local root access.
Red Hat Security Advisory - Under certain conditions, suidperl will attempt to send mail to the local superuser account using /bin/mail. A properly formatted exploit script can use this facility, along with mailx's tendency to inherit settings from the environment, to gain local root access.