Race condition in the rmtree function in the File::Path module in Perl 5.6.1 and 5.8.4 sets read/write permissions for the world, which allows local users to delete arbitrary files and directories, and possibly read files and directories, via a symlink attack.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2004-12-31T05:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-08T00:17:14.963Z

Reserved: 2004-05-06T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2004-0452

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2004-12-21T05:00:00.000

Modified: 2017-10-11T01:29:26.217

Link: CVE-2004-0452

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2004-12-23T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2004-0452 - Bugzilla