CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-2827
4.6 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-06-23
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• perl perl 5.10
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=487319 Exploit
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00006.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=36982 Exploit
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30790 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30837 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31687 secunia.com
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:165 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29902 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020373 www.securitytracker.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43308 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-June/msg01025.html www.redhat.com
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=487319 Exploit
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00006.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=36982 Exploit
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30790 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30837 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31687 secunia.com
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:165 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29902 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020373 www.securitytracker.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43308 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-June/msg01025.html www.redhat.com