OpenPKG Security Advisory

Publisher Name:          OpenPKG GmbH
Publisher Home:          http://openpkg.com/

Advisory Id (public):    OpenPKG-SA-2005.001
Advisory Type:           OpenPKG Security Advisory (SA)
Advisory Directory:      http://openpkg.com/go/OpenPKG-SA
Advisory Document:       http://openpkg.com/go/OpenPKG-SA-2005.001
Advisory Published:      2008-11-21 21:53 UTC

Issue Id (internal):     OpenPKG-SI-20050111.01
Issue First Created:     2005-01-11
Issue Last Modified:     2006-11-28
Issue Revision:          06


Subject Name:            Perl File::Path
Subject Summary:         Practical Extraction and Reporting Language
Subject Home:            http://www.perl.com/
Subject Versions:        * <= 5.8.6

Vulnerability Id:        CVE-2004-0452, CVE-2004-0976
Vulnerability Scope:     global (not OpenPKG specific)

Attack Feasibility:      run-time
Attack Vector:           local system
Attack Impact:           exposure of sensitive information

Description:
    Jeroen van Wolffelaar discovered that the rmtree() function in the
    Perl [0] File::Path module removes directory trees in an insecure
    manner which could lead to the removal of arbitrary files and
    directories through a symlink attack. CVE-2004-0452
    
    Trustix developers discovered several insecure uses of temporary files
    in many modules which allow a local attacker to overwrite files via a
    symlink attack. CVE-2004-0976

References:
    [0] http://www.perl.com/
    [1] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2004-0452
    [2] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2004-0976
    [3] http://www.openpkg.org/tutorial.html#regular-source
    [4] http://www.openpkg.org/tutorial.html#regular-binary
    [5] ftp://ftp.openpkg.org/release/2.2/UPD/perl-5.8.5-2.2.1.src.rpm
    [6] ftp://ftp.openpkg.org/release/2.1/UPD/perl-5.8.4-2.1.1.src.rpm
    [7] ftp://ftp.openpkg.org/release/2.2/UPD/
    [8] ftp://ftp.openpkg.org/release/2.1/UPD/
    [9] http://www.openpkg.org/security.html#signature


Primary Package Name:    perl
Primary Package Home:    http://openpkg.org/go/package/perl

Affected Distribution:   Affected Branch:  Affected Package:
OpenPKG Community        2.1-SOLID         perl-5.8.4-2.1.0
OpenPKG Community        2.2-SOLID         perl-5.8.5-2.2.0
OpenPKG Community        CURRENT           perl-5.8.6-20041129

Corrected Distribution:  Corrected Branch: Corrected Package:
OpenPKG Community        2.1-SOLID         perl-5.8.4-2.1.1
OpenPKG Community        2.2-SOLID         perl-5.8.5-2.2.1
OpenPKG Community        CURRENT           perl-5.8.6-20050111