Bug 157694

Summary: CAN-2005-0448 perl File::Path.pm rmtree race condition
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component: perlAssignee: Petr Rockai <prockai>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Version: 4.0Keywords: Security
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Whiteboard: impact=low,public=20050309,source=cve,reported=20050314
Fixed In Version: RHSA-2005-674 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Patch from Ubuntu, this is going to to need some cleaning up. none

Description Josh Bressers 2005-05-13 20:38:29 UTC 
Race condition in the rmtree function in File::Path.pm in Perl before 5.8.4
allows local users to create arbitrary setuid binaries in the tree being
deleted, a different vulnerability than CAN-2004-0452.

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=111039131424834&w=2
Comment 1 Josh Bressers 2005-05-13 20:38:29 UTC 
Created attachment 114350 [details]
Patch from Ubuntu, this is going to to need some cleaning up.
Comment 10 Red Hat Bugzilla 2005-10-05 12:33:38 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-674.html