CVE-2008-2827 (GCVE-0-2008-2827)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-06-23 19:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 09:14
VLAI?
Summary
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.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-an… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29902 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=36982 x_refsource_MISC
http://secunia.com/advisories/31687 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=487319 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020373 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://secunia.com/advisories/30790 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/30837 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
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