CVE-2002-1323: Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Safe.pm 2.0.7 and earlier, when used in Perl 5.8.0 and earlier, may allow attackers to break out of safe compartments in (1) Safe::reval or (2) Safe::rdo using a redefined @_ variable, which is not reset between successive calls.

Affected products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 2.1 only
• Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation: version 2.1 only
• Safe.pm Safe.pm: version 2.0_6 only; version 2.0_7 only
• Sco Open Unix: version 8.0 only
• Sco Unixware: version 7.1.2 only; version 7.1.3 only
• Sgi Irix: version 6.5 only; version 6.5.1 only; version 6.5.2 only; version 6.5.3 only; version 6.5.4 only; version 6.5.5 only; …
• Sun Linux: version 5.0.7 only
• Sun Solaris: version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only
• Sun Sunos: version 5.8 only

Published 2002-12-11. Last modified 2026-06-16.