CVE-2004-0452 Information

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.

Reference

ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060101-01-U http://fedoranews.org/updates/FEDORA–.shtml http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110547693019788&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/12991 http://secunia.com/advisories/18517 http://secunia.com/advisories/55314 http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-620 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200501-38.xml http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-103.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-105.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12072 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18650 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A9938 https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-44-1/