SUSE Linux Security Vulnerability: CVE-2008-2827
5
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
06/23/2008
07/25/2018
02/17/2015
07/04/2017
Description
The rmtree function in lib/File/Path.pm in Perl 5.10 does not properly check permissions before performing a chmod, which allows local users to modify the permissions of arbitrary files via a symlink attack, a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-0448 and CVE-2004-0452.
Solution(s)
- suse-upgrade-perl
- suse-upgrade-perl-32bit
- suse-upgrade-perl-64bit
- suse-upgrade-perl-base
- suse-upgrade-perl-doc
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