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TITLE:
Perl "File::Path::rmtree" Insecure chmod on Symbolic Links

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA30790

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/30790/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

SOFTWARE:
Perl 5.x
http://secunia.com/product/2647/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Perl, which can be exploited by
malicious, local user to perform actions with escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to the insecure use of chmod on
symbolic links and can be exploited to change permissions of
arbitrary files to 0777 via symlink attacks.

The vulnerability is reported in version 5.10.

SOLUTION:
Do not use applications, which use "File::Path::rmtree", on systems
with untrusted users.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported via a Debian bug report.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=487319

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