Security Advisory

CVE-1999-1386

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2002-03-09 05:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-01 17:11:02
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

Perl 5.004_04 and earlier follows symbolic links when running with the -e option, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/perl-eaXXXXX file.