CVE-2004-0452

Description

Race condition in the rmtree function in the File::Path module in Perl 5.6.1 and 5.8.4 sets read/write permissions for the world, which allows local users to delete arbitrary files and directories, and possibly read files and directories, via a symlink attack.

References

https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-44-1/

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9938

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18650

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12072

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-105.html

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-103.html

http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200501-38.xml

http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-620

http://secunia.com/advisories/55314

http://secunia.com/advisories/18517

http://secunia.com/advisories/12991

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110547693019788&w=2

http://fedoranews.org/updates/FEDORA--.shtml

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3