National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-5060

Overview

The par_mktmpdir function in the PAR module before 1.003 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, a different vulnerability in a different package than CVE-2011-4114.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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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: 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: XF

Name: par-parmktmpdir-symlink(72435)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/72435

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/RSCHUPP/PAR-1.003/ChangeLog

Hyperlink:http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/RSCHUPP/PAR-1.003/ChangeLog