CVE-2005-4278: Larry Wall Perl

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Perl before 5.8.7-r1 on Gentoo Linux allows local users in the portage group to gain privileges via a malicious shared object in the Portage temporary build directory, which is part of the RUNPATH.

Affected products

• Larry Wall Perl: up to and including 5.8.6; version 5.3 only; version 5.4 only; version 5.4.5 only; version 5.5 only; version 5.5.3 only; …

Published 2005-12-16. Last modified 2026-06-16.