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CVE-2008-5303

N/A

Description

Race condition in the rmtree function in File::Path 1.08 (lib/File/Path.pm) in Perl 5.8.8 allows local users to to delete arbitrary files 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-2008-5302 due to affected versions.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 ScoreN/A

Published12/1/2008

Last Modified4/23/2026

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

perl:file\perl:perl

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-362

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=286905(cve@mitre.org)

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=286922#36(cve@mitre.org)

http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10705(cve@mitre.org)

http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10735(cve@mitre.org)

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Mar/msg00001.html(cve@mitre.org)

http://secunia.com/advisories/32980(cve@mitre.org)

http://secunia.com/advisories/33314(cve@mitre.org)

http://secunia.com/advisories/40052(cve@mitre.org)

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4077(cve@mitre.org)

http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0011(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1678(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/perl/porters/233695#233695(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:116(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/28/2(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0458.html(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/500210/100/0/threaded(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-700-1(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-700-2(cve@mitre.org)

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47044(cve@mitre.org)

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6680(cve@mitre.org)

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9699(cve@mitre.org)

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=286905(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=286922#36(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10705(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10735(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Mar/msg00001.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://secunia.com/advisories/32980(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://secunia.com/advisories/33314(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://secunia.com/advisories/40052(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4077(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0011(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1678(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/perl/porters/233695#233695(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:116(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/28/2(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0458.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/500210/100/0/threaded(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-700-1(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-700-2(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47044(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6680(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9699(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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