National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2005-0448
Original release date:05/02/2005
Last revised:09/10/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Race condition in the rmtree function in File::Path.pm in Perl before 5.8.4 allows local users to create arbitrary setuid binaries in the tree being deleted, a different vulnerability than CVE-2004-0452.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
1.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: High
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized modification
- Official Statement from Red Hat (09/19/2006)
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Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 via the following bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=161054
The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact, a future update may address this flaw. More information regarding issue severity can be found here:
http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/
This issue was fixed in RHSA-2005:881 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
This issue does not affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
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External Source: GENTOO
Name: GLSA-200501-38
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-696
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-94-1
External Source: BID
Name: 12767
External Source: HP
Name: HPSBUX01208
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2005:881
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2005:674
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDKSA-2005:079
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 18517
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 18075
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 17079
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 14531
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDKSA-2005:079
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FLSA-2006:152845
External Source: CONECTIVA
Name: CLSA-2006:1056
External Source: SGI
Name: 20060101-01-U
US Government Resource: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:728
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:728
Type: Tool Signature