CVE-2011-1072

Description

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

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/65721

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46605

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1741.html

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:187

http://svn.php.net/viewvc?view=revision&revision=308687

http://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-1072

http://secunia.com/advisories/43533

http://pear.php.net/advisory-20110228.txt

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/01/9

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/01/8

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/01/7

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/01/5

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/01/4

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/28/5

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/28/3

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/28/12

http://news.php.net/php.pear.cvs/61264

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=546164

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3

EPSS