CVE-2009-0912

Publication date

2009-03-16 17:00:00

Family

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.