vulnerability

Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2017-6512): Perl vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Jun 1, 2017
Added
Apr 25, 2018
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

Race condition in the rmtree and remove_tree functions in the File-Path module before 2.13 for Perl allows attackers to set the mode on arbitrary files via vectors involving directory-permission loosening logic.

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-perl
Title
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