CVE-2008-5303
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Published: December 1, 2008 at 05:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:59 PM UTC
2 products affected across 1 vendorFilePerl
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.3%
Description
Race condition in the rmtree function in File::Path 1.08 (lib/File/Path.pm) in Perl 5.8.8 allows local users to to delete arbitrary files via a symlink attack, a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-0448, CVE-2004-0452, and CVE-2008-2827. NOTE: this is a regression error related to CVE-2005-0448. It is different from CVE-2008-5302 due to affected versions.
Remediation
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Patch and advisory references
References (21)
x_refsource_CONFIRMExploit
Source: [email protected]
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=286905x_refsource_CONFIRM
Source: [email protected]
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=286922#36x_refsource_CONFIRM
Source: [email protected]
http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10705x_refsource_CONFIRM
Source: [email protected]
http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10735Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_APPLE
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Mar/msg00001.htmlQuick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-362
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