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Mandriva: Subject: [Security Announce] [ MDVSA-2008:165 ] perl

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LinuxSecurity.com: The rmtree function in lib/File/Path.pm in Perl 5.10 does not properly check permissions before performing a chmod, which allows local users to modify the permissions of arbitrary files via a symlink attack. The updated packages have been patched to fix this.




Original Source: http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/141047?rdf

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