Bug 140542 - CVE-2004-0452 File::Path::rmtree() issue
Summary: CVE-2004-0452 File::Path::rmtree() issue
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
Classification: Red Hat
Component: perl
Version: 3.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jason Vas Dias
QA Contact: David Lawrence
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-11-23 15:54 UTC by Mark J. Cox
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version: 5.8.0-89.10
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2005-11-08 18:21:58 UTC
Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

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patch proposed from Chip (1.38 KB, patch)
2004-11-23 16:22 UTC, Mark J. Cox 		no flags Details | Diff
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Description Mark J. Cox 2004-11-23 15:54:03 UTC 
Debian reported to vendor-sec earlier in the year a possible issue in
File::Path::rmtree.  "It seems that in the process of recursing the
tree, File::Path::rmtree uses chmod to set various things to be world
writable.  This would seem to open the usual race conditions in 
situations where they would not otherwise exist, due to the directories
involved having sane permissions."

Possibly not public; checking with Debian.
Comment 1 Mark J. Cox 2004-11-23 16:22:06 UTC 
Created attachment 107309 [details]
patch proposed from Chip
Comment 6 Jason Vas Dias 2005-11-08 18:21:58 UTC 
This bug has been fixed since RHEL-3-U5 with perl-5.8.0-89.10, in the 
RHEL-3-embargo CVS branch. Chip's patches for this have now been applied
to the HEAD CVS branch, and this issue is also fixed in perl-5.8.0-90.2 .
Comment 7 Mark J. Cox 2005-11-09 09:51:16 UTC 
Verified, fixed by http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-105.html
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