PublicDateAtUSN: 2011-03-02
Candidate: CVE-2011-1144
PublicDate: 2011-03-03 01:00:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-1144
 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/01/9
 https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1126-1
Description:
 The installer in PEAR 1.9.2 and earlier 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.  NOTE: this vulnerability exists because
 of an incomplete fix for CVE-2011-1072.
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
 kees> php5 5.3.5 still contains a vulnerable version:
 kees> $ grep version /usr/share/php/PEAR.php | tail -n1
 kees> * @version    Release: 1.9.1
Bugs:
Priority: low
Discovered-by: Dan Rosenberg
Assigned-to: sbeattie
CVSS: 

Patches_php5:
 upstream: http://svn.php.net/viewvc?view=revision&revision=309042
upstream_php5: needs-triage
dapper_php5: released (5.1.2-1ubuntu3.22)
hardy_php5: released (5.2.4-2ubuntu5.15)
karmic_php5: released (5.2.10.dfsg.1-2ubuntu6.9)
lucid_php5: released (5.3.2-1ubuntu4.8)
maverick_php5: released (5.3.3-1ubuntu9.4)
natty_php5: released (5.3.5-1ubuntu7.1)
devel_php5: not-affected (5.3.5-1ubuntu7.2)