CVE-2004-0452

Publication date

2004-12-31 05:00:00

Family

mitre

State

PUBLISHED

Description

Race condition in the rmtree function in the File::Path module in Perl 5.6.1 and 5.8.4 sets read/write permissions for the world, which allows local users to delete arbitrary files and directories, and possibly read files and directories, via a symlink attack.