Candidate: CVE-2008-5303
PublicDate: 2008-12-01 17:30:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5303
 https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-700-1
Description:
 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.
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
Bugs:
Priority: medium
Discovered-by:
Assigned-to: kees
CVSS: 

Patches_perl:
upstream_perl: needs-triage
dapper_perl: not-affected (5.8.7-10ubuntu1.1)
gutsy_perl: released (5.8.8-7ubuntu3.4)
hardy_perl: released (5.8.8-12ubuntu0.3)
intrepid_perl: not-affected
devel_perl: not-affected