Description
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.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
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n/aaffected
References
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-105.html ↗
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9938 ↗
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-103.html ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/55314 ↗
- http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-620 ↗
- http://fedoranews.org/updates/FEDORA--.shtml ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/12991 ↗
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110547693019788&w=2 ↗
- https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-44-1/ ↗
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200501-38.xml ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12072 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18517 ↗
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18650 ↗