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CVE-2008-5303

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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.

Date published : 2008-12-01

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Mar/msg00001.html

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/500210/100/0/threaded

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