CVE-2011-1072 (GCVE-0-2011-1072)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2011-03-03 00:00
Modified
2024-08-06 22:14
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
The installer in PEAR before 1.9.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the package.xml file, related to the (1) download_dir, (2) cache_dir, (3) tmp_dir, and (4) pear-build-download directories, a different vulnerability than CVE-2007-2519.
References
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/28/5 mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/01/7 mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=546164 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://secunia.com/advisories/43533 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/01/8 mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/28/12 mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
http://news.php.net/php.pear.cvs/61264 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-1072 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/01/5 mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/01/4 mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1741.html vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:187 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_MANDRIVA
http://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=18056 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/28/3 mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/65721 vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF
http://svn.php.net/viewvc?view=revision&revision=308687 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://pear.php.net/advisory-20110228.txt x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46605 vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/01/9 mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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