National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2010-2253

Overview

lwp-download in libwww-perl before 5.835 does not reject downloads to filenames that begin with a . (dot) character, which allows remote servers to create or overwrite files via (1) a 3xx redirect to a URL with a crafted filename or (2) a Content-Disposition header that suggests a crafted filename, and possibly execute arbitrary code as a consequence of writing to a dotfile in a home directory.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=602800

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=602800

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=591580

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=591580

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2010-2872

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2872

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-981-1

Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-981-1

External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2010-001.html

Hyperlink:http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2010-001.html

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20100609 Re: [oCERT-2010-001] multiple http client unexpected download filename vulnerability

Hyperlink:http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127611288927500&w=2

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20100517 [oCERT-2010-001] multiple http client unexpected download filename vulnerability

Hyperlink:http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127411372529485&w=2

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2010-15532

Hyperlink:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050245.html

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2010-15405

Hyperlink:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050232.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/GAAS/libwww-perl-5.836/Changes

Hyperlink:http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/GAAS/libwww-perl-5.836/Changes