CVE-2004-0452 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2004-0452 at MITRE

Description

Race condition in the rmtree function in the File::Path module in Perl 5.6.1 and 5.8.4 sets read/write permissions for the world, which allows local users to delete arbitrary files and directories, and possibly read files and directories, via a symlink attack.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently not rated by SUSE as it is not affecting the SUSE Enterprise products.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	2.6
Vector	AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
Access Vector	Local
Access Complexity	High
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	Partial
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entries: 402660 [RESOLVED / FIXED], 450385 [RESOLVED / FIXED], 56715 [RESOLVED / FIXED], 81276 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SR:2005:004, published Friday, Feb 11th 2005 15:00 MEST

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 00:50:51 2013
CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 6 18:14:35 2025