CVE-2008-5302 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2008-5302 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	6.9
Vector	AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector	Local
Access Complexity	Medium
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Complete
Integrity Impact	Complete
Availability Impact	Complete

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 450385 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SR:2009:004, published Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 06:38:37 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Dec 8 16:29:19 2023