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CVE-2008-5303 (GCVE-0-2008-5303)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-12-01 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 10:49
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Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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Date Public
2008-11-28 00:00
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