Security Advisory

CVE-2008-5303

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2008-12-01 17:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-07 10:49:12

Assigner mitre

State PUBLISHED

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.

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