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SUSE Linux Security Vulnerability: CVE-2008-5302

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SUSE Linux Security Vulnerability: CVE-2008-5302

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
12/01/2008
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/17/2015
Modified
07/04/2017

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-perl
  • suse-upgrade-perl-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-perl-64bit
  • suse-upgrade-perl-base
  • suse-upgrade-perl-base-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-perl-base-64bit
  • suse-upgrade-perl-doc

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