CPANSA-File-Path-2008-5303: File-Path vulnerability

Publisher giterlizzi Document category csaf_security_advisory
Initial release date 2008-12-01T00:00:00 Engine CSAF Perl Toolkit 0.25
Current release date 2008-12-01T00:00:00 Build Date
Current version 1 Status final
CVSS v3.1 Base Score Severity
Original language Language en
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Vulnerability Description

Race condition in the rmtree function in File::Path 1.08 (lib/File/Path.pm) in Perl 5.8.8 allows local users to 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.

Vulnerabilities

CVE-2008-5303

Vulnerability Description

Race condition in the rmtree function in File::Path 1.08 (lib/File/Path.pm) in Perl 5.8.8 allows local users to 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.

Weakness CWE-362 : Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')

Product status

Known affected
Product Score
File-Path less than or equal 1.08
CVSS Version CVSS Vector CVSS Base Score CVSS Base Severity
2.0 AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C 6.9 Medium

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References

Revision history

Version Date of the revision Summary of the revision
1 Mon Dec 1 00:00:00 2008 First release

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