PRIOn knowledge basePRION:CVE-2008-5302Race condition
Race condition in the rmtree function in File::Path 1.08 and 2.07 (lib/File/Path.pm) in Perl 5.8.8 and 5.10.0 allows local users to create arbitrary setuid binaries via a symlink attack, a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-0448, CVE-2004-0452, and CVE-2008-2827. NOTE: this is a regression error related to CVE-2005-0448. It is different from CVE-2008-5303 due to affected versions.
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bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=286905
bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=286922
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support.apple.com/kb/HT4077
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