Description
The installer in PEAR 1.9.2 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the package.xml file, related to the (1) download_dir, (2) cache_dir, (3) tmp_dir, and (4) pear-build-download directories. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2011-1072.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
n/a n/a
n/aaffected
References
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/28/5 ↗
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/01/7 ↗
- http://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=18056 ↗
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/01/8 ↗
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/65911 ↗
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/01/5 ↗
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/01/4 ↗
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/01/9 ↗