CVE-2011-1072 Information

Description

The installer in PEAR before 1.9.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the package.xml file related to the (1) download_dir (2) cache_dir (3) tmp_dir and (4) pear-build-download directories a different vulnerability than CVE-2007-2519.

Reference

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=546164 http://news.php.net/php.pear.cvs/61264 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/28/12 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/28/3 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/28/5 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/01/4 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/01/5 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/01/7 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/01/8 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/01/9 http://pear.php.net/advisory-20110228.txt http://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=18056 http://secunia.com/advisories/43533 http://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-1072 http://svn.php.net/viewvc?view=revision&revision=308687 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:187 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1741.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46605 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/65721