CVE-2012-2451 Affecting libconfig-inifiles-perl package, versions <2.72-1


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Debian security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.5% (39th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-LIBCONFIGINIFILESPERL-272422
  • published27 Jun 2012
  • disclosed27 Jun 2012

Introduced: 27 Jun 2012

CVE-2012-2451  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:unstable libconfig-inifiles-perl to version 2.72-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libconfig-inifiles-perl package and not the libconfig-inifiles-perl package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:unstable relevant fixed versions and status.

The Config::IniFiles module before 2.71 for Perl creates temporary files with predictable names, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information. NOTE: it has been reported that this might only be exploitable by writing in the same directory as the .ini file. If this is the case, then this issue might not cross privilege boundaries.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1