CVE-2008-2827
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Jun 23, 2008
- Updated
- Aug 7, 2024
- Reserved
- Jun 23, 2008
Description
The rmtree function in lib/File/Path.pm in Perl 5.10 does not properly check permissions before performing a chmod, which allows local users to modify the permissions of arbitrary files via a symlink attack, a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-0448 and CVE-2004-0452.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- SUSE-SR:2008:017vendor-advisory
- FEDORA-2008-5739vendor-advisory
- 29902vdb-entry
- MDVSA-2008:165vendor-advisory
- http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=36982
- 31687third-party-advisory
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=487319
- 1020373vdb-entry
- 30790third-party-advisory
- 30837third-party-advisory
- perl-filepath-rmtree-symlink(43308)vdb-entry
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