CVE-2008-5302 (GCVE-0-2008-5302)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-12-01 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 10:49
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Summary
Race condition in the rmtree function in File::Path 1.08 and 2.07 (lib/File/Path.pm) in Perl 5.8.8 and 5.10.0 allows local users to create arbitrary setuid binaries via a symlink attack, a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-0448, CVE-2004-0452, and CVE-2008-2827. NOTE: this is a regression error related to CVE-2005-0448. It is different from CVE-2008-5303 due to affected versions.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
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Date Public
2008-11-28 00:00
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            "value": "Race condition in the rmtree function in File::Path 1.08 and 2.07 (lib/File/Path.pm) in Perl 5.8.8 and 5.10.0 allows local users to create arbitrary setuid binaries via a symlink attack, a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-0448, CVE-2004-0452, and CVE-2008-2827. NOTE: this is a regression error related to CVE-2005-0448.  It is different from CVE-2008-5303 due to affected versions."
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            "value": "Condici\u00f3n de carrera en la funci\u00f3n rmtree de File::Path 1.08 y 2.07 (lib/File/Path.pm) en Perl 5.8.8 y 5.10.0 permite a usuarios locales crear binarios setuid arbitrarios a trav\u00e9s de un ataque por enlace simb\u00f3lico. Se trata de una vulnerabilidad diferente que CVE-2005-0448, CVE-2004-0452 y CVE-2008-2827. NOTA: Esto es un error de regresi\u00f3n relacionado con CVE-2005-0448. Es diferente de CVE-2008-5303 por las versiones afectadas."
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