National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-4114

Overview

The par_mktmpdir function in the PAR::Packer module before 1.012 for Perl creates temporary files in a directory with a predictable name without verifying ownership and permissions of this directory, which allows local users to overwrite files when another user extracts a PAR packed program. NOTE: a similar vulnerability was reported for PAR, but this has been assigned a different CVE identifier.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=753955

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=753955

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2011-16856

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-December/071099.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=69560

Hyperlink:https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=69560

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20111104 Re: CVE request: unsafe use of /tmp in multiple CPAN modules

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/04/4

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20111104 CVE request: unsafe use of /tmp in multiple CPAN modules

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/04/2

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2011-16859

Hyperlink:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-December/071091.html