Secunia CSI 5.0
Products
Solutions
Customers
Partner
Resources
Company
Careers
Community

CVE Reference: CVE-2008-5302
NOTE: The text on this page is written by CVE MITRE and reflects neither the opinions of Secunia or the results of our research. All data on this page is written and maintained by CVE MITRE.

Original Page at CVE MITRE:
CVE-2008-5302

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.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

XF
  http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/47043

UBUNTU
  http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-700-1
  http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-700-2

SUSE
  http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00002.html

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA33314
  Secunia Advisory: SA32980
  Secunia Advisory: SA40052

REDHAT
  http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0458.html

OVAL
  http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11076
  http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6890

MLIST
  http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/28/2

MISC
  http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/perl/porters/233695#233695

MANDRIVA
  http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:116

DEBIAN
  http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1678

CONFIRM
  http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4077
  http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0011
  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=286905
  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=286922#36

BUGTRAQ
  http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/500210/100/0/threaded

APPLE
  http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Mar/msg00001.html


Return to the previous page.


 Products Solutions Customers Partner Resources Company
 
 Corporate
Vulnerability Intelligence Manager (VIM)
Corporate Software Inspector (CSI)
Consumer
Personal Software Inspector (PSI)
Online Software Inspector (OSI)
 Industry
Compliance
Technology
Integration
 Customers
Testimonials
 VARS
MSSP
Technology Partners
References
 Factsheets
Reports & Papers
Webinars
Events
 About us
Careers
Memberships
Newsroom
 
© 2002-2012 Secunia ApS - Rued Langgaards Vej 8, 4th floor, DK-2300 Copenhagen, Denmark - +45 7020 5144
Terms & Conditions and Copyright - Privacy - Report Vulnerability