National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-2827
Original release date:06/23/2008
Last revised:11/25/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
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.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
Exploitability Subscore:
3.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
- Official Statement from Red Hat (06/24/2008)
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Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of perl as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, or 5, Red Hat Application Stack 1, or Solaris versions of Red Hat Directory Server 7.1 and 8, Certificate System 7.x.
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External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2008-5739
External Source: XF
Name: perl-filepath-rmtree-symlink(43308)
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1020373
External Source: BID
Name: 29902
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDVSA-2008:165
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 31687
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 30837
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 30790
External Source: MISC
Name: http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=36982
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SR:2008:017
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=487319