CVE-2005-0155: Larry Wall Perl

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The PerlIO implementation in Perl 5.8.0, when installed with setuid support (sperl), allows local users to create arbitrary files via the PERLIO_DEBUG variable.

Affected products

• Larry Wall Perl: version 5.8.0 only

Published 2005-05-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.