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Perl Permissions Privileges and Access Controls Vulnerability - CVE-2008-2827 - Vulnerability Database
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Perl Permissions Privileges and Access Controls Vulnerability - CVE-2008-2827

Medium
Reference: CVE-2008-2827
NVD Link: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-2827
Title: Perl Permissions Privileges and Access Controls Vulnerability
Overview:

The rmtree function in lib/File/Path.pm in Perl 5.10 does not properly check permissions before performing a chmod which allows local users to modify the permissions of arbitrary files via a symlink attack a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-0448 and CVE-2004-0452.