CVE-2011-1144 Information

Description

The installer in PEAR 1.9.2 and earlier 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. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2011-1072.

Reference

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/bugs/bug.php?id=18056 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/65911