CVE-2004-0452 (GCVE-0-2004-0452)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2004-12-31 05:00
Modified
2024-08-08 00:17
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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
cve@mitre.org ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060101-01-U
cve@mitre.org http://fedoranews.org/updates/FEDORA--.shtml
cve@mitre.org http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110547693019788&w=2
cve@mitre.org http://secunia.com/advisories/12991
cve@mitre.org http://secunia.com/advisories/18517
cve@mitre.org http://secunia.com/advisories/55314
cve@mitre.org http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-620 Patch, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.org http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200501-38.xml Patch, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.org http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-103.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.org http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-105.html
cve@mitre.org http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12072
cve@mitre.org https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18650
cve@mitre.org https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9938
cve@mitre.org https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-44-1/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060101-01-U
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://fedoranews.org/updates/FEDORA--.shtml
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110547693019788&w=2
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://secunia.com/advisories/12991
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://secunia.com/advisories/18517
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://secunia.com/advisories/55314
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-620 Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200501-38.xml Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-103.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-105.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12072
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18650
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9938
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-44-1/
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