CVE-2007-2519 Information

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the installer in PEAR 1.0 through 1.5.3 allows user-assisted remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) sequence in the (1) install-as attribute in the file element in package.xml 1.0 or the (2) as attribute in the install element in package.xml 2.0. NOTE: it could be argued that this does not cross privilege boundaries in typical installations since the code being installed could perform the same actions.

Reference

http://osvdb.org/42108 http://pear.php.net/advisory-20070507.txt http://pear.php.net/news/vulnerability2.php http://secunia.com/advisories/25372 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:110 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24111 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-462-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1926 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/34482