CVE-2005-0448 Affecting perl5 package, versions [,5.8.4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.08% (25th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-PERL5-2317622
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed2 May 2005
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 2 May 2005

CVE-2005-0448  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade perl5 to version 5.8.4 or higher.

Overview

Race condition in the rmtree function in File::Path.pm in Perl before 5.8.4 allows local users to create arbitrary setuid binaries in the tree being deleted, a different vulnerability than CVE-2004-0452.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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