Security Advisory

CVE-2009-0912

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2009-03-16 17:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 04:57:16
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

perl-MDK-Common 1.1.11 and 1.1.24, 1.2.9 through 1.2.14, and possibly other versions, in Mandriva Linux does not properly handle strings when writing them to configuration files, which allows attackers to gain privileges via "special characters" in unspecified vectors.