vulnerability

Ubuntu: (CVE-2016-10374): perltidy vulnerability

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
May 17, 2017
Added
Jun 26, 2025
Modified
Jul 28, 2025

Description

perltidy through 20160302, as used by perlcritic, check-all-the-things, and other software, relies on the current working directory for certain output files and does not have a symlink-attack protection mechanism, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files by creating a symlink, as demonstrated by creating a perltidy.ERR symlink that the victim cannot delete.

Solution

no-fix-ubuntu-package
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