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Perl symbolic links race conditions
updated since 27.12.2004 | | Published: |  | 04.12.2008 | | Source: |  | SECUNIA | | SecurityVulns ID: |  | 4314 | | Type: |  | local | | Level: |  | 5/10 | | Description: |  | File::Path::rmtree unsecurely changes file permissions, creating race condiotns for symbolic links manipulation. |
| Affected: |  | PERL : perl 5.8 | | | | PERL : Perl 5.9 | | CVE: |  | CVE-2008-5303 (Race condition in the rmtree function in File::Path 1.08 (lib/File/Path.pm) in Perl 5.8.8 allows local users to allows local users to delete arbitrary files via a symlink attack, a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-0448, CVE-2004-0452, and CVE-2008-2827. NOTE: this is a regression error related to CVE-2005-0448. It is different from CVE-2008-5302 due to affected versions.) | | | | CVE-2008-5302 (Race condition in the rmtree function in File::Path 1.08 and 2.07 (lib/File/Path.pm) in Perl 5.8.8 and 5.10.0 allows local users to create arbitrary setuid binaries via a symlink attack, a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-0448, CVE-2004-0452, and CVE-2008-2827. NOTE: this is a regression error related to CVE-2005-0448. It is different from CVE-2008-5303 due to affected versions.) | | | | CVE-2005-0448 (Race condition in the rmtree function in File::Path.pm in Perl before 5.8.4 allows local users to create arbitrary setuid binaries in the tree being deleted, a different vulnerability than CVE-2004-0452.) | | | | CVE-2004-0452 (Race condition in the rmtree function in the File::Path module in Perl 5.6.1 and 5.8.4 sets read/write permissions for the world, which allows local users to delete arbitrary files and directories, and possibly read files and directories, via a symlink attack.) |
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