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perl -- Directory Permissions Race Condition

Affected packages
5.8.0 <= perl < 5.8.9

Details

VuXML ID 4a99d61c-f23a-11dd-9f55-0030843d3802
Discovery 2005-03-09
Entry 2009-02-03

Secunia reports:

Paul Szabo has reported a vulnerability in Perl File::Path::rmtree, which potentially can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to a race condition in the way File::Path::rmtree handles directory permissions when cleaning up directories. This can be exploited by replacing an existing sub directory in the directory tree with a symbolic link to an arbitrary file.

Successful exploitation may allow changing permissions of arbitrary files, if root uses an application using the vulnerable code to delete files in a directory having a world-writable sub directory.

References

CVE Name CVE-2005-0448
URL http://secunia.com/advisories/14531/
URL http://www.ubuntulinux.org/usn/usn-94-1