suidperl (aka sperl) does not properly cleanse the escape sequence "~!" before calling /bin/mail to send an error report, which allows local users to gain privileges by setting the "interactive" environmental variable and calling suidperl with a filename that contains the escape sequence.
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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2000-10-13T04:00:00
Updated: 2004-09-02T09:00:00
Reserved: 2000-09-19T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2000-0703
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NVD Information
Status : Analyzed
Published: 2000-10-20T04:00:00.000
Modified: 2008-09-10T19:05:39.807
Link: CVE-2000-0703
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