Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1678-1 perl -- design flaws
- Date Reported:
- 03 Dec 2008
- Affected Packages:
- perl
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 286905, Bug 286922.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2008-5302, CVE-2008-5303. - More information:
-
Paul Szabo rediscovered a vulnerability in the File::Path::rmtree function of Perl. It was possible to exploit a race condition to create setuid binaries in a directory tree or remove arbitrary files when a process is deleting this tree. This issue was originally known as CVE-2005-0448 and CVE-2004-0452, which were addressed by DSA-696-1 and DSA-620-1. Unfortunately, they were reintroduced later.
For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in version 5.8.8-7etch5.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 5.10.0-18 and will migrate to the testing distribution (lenny) shortly.
We recommend that you upgrade your perl packages.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl_5.8.8-7etch5.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl_5.8.8.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl_5.8.8-7etch5.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl_5.8.8.orig.tar.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libcgi-fast-perl_5.8.8-7etch5_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-doc_5.8.8-7etch5_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-modules_5.8.8-7etch5_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-doc_5.8.8-7etch5_all.deb
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl_5.8.8-7etch5_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl5.8_5.8.8-7etch5_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-debug_5.8.8-7etch5_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-suid_5.8.8-7etch5_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl-dev_5.8.8-7etch5_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-base_5.8.8-7etch5_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl5.8_5.8.8-7etch5_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl-dev_5.8.8-7etch5_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-base_5.8.8-7etch5_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-suid_5.8.8-7etch5_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl_5.8.8-7etch5_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-debug_5.8.8-7etch5_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl5.8_5.8.8-7etch5_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-base_5.8.8-7etch5_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl5.8_5.8.8-7etch5_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl-dev_5.8.8-7etch5_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-suid_5.8.8-7etch5_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl_5.8.8-7etch5_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-base_5.8.8-7etch5_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-debug_5.8.8-7etch5_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl-dev_5.8.8-7etch5_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl_5.8.8-7etch5_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl5.8_5.8.8-7etch5_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl-dev_5.8.8-7etch5_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-suid_5.8.8-7etch5_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-debug_5.8.8-7etch5_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-base_5.8.8-7etch5_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl5.8_5.8.8-7etch5_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl-dev_5.8.8-7etch5_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-debug_5.8.8-7etch5_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-base_5.8.8-7etch5_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl5.8_5.8.8-7etch5_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-suid_5.8.8-7etch5_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl_5.8.8-7etch5_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-debug_5.8.8-7etch5_ia64.deb
- Big-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-debug_5.8.8-7etch5_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl-dev_5.8.8-7etch5_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl_5.8.8-7etch5_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-suid_5.8.8-7etch5_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-base_5.8.8-7etch5_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl5.8_5.8.8-7etch5_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl-dev_5.8.8-7etch5_mips.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl-dev_5.8.8-7etch5_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-debug_5.8.8-7etch5_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl5.8_5.8.8-7etch5_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-suid_5.8.8-7etch5_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-base_5.8.8-7etch5_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl_5.8.8-7etch5_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-debug_5.8.8-7etch5_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-base_5.8.8-7etch5_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-suid_5.8.8-7etch5_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-debug_5.8.8-7etch5_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl5.8_5.8.8-7etch5_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl_5.8.8-7etch5_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl-dev_5.8.8-7etch5_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-suid_5.8.8-7etch5_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl5.8_5.8.8-7etch5_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl_5.8.8-7etch5_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-base_5.8.8-7etch5_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-suid_5.8.8-7etch5_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl-debug_5.8.8-7etch5_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libperl-dev_5.8.8-7etch5_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/perl_5.8.8-7etch5_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.