Package : perl Vulnerability : design flaw Problem-Type : local Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CAN-2005-0448 Debian Bug : 286905 286922
Paul Szabo discovered another vulnerability in the File::Path::rmtree function of perl, the popular scripting language. When a process is deleting a directory tree, a different user could exploit a race condition to create setuid binaries in this directory tree, provided that he already had write permissions in any subdirectory of that tree.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 5.6.1-8.9.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 5.8.4-8.
We recommend that you upgrade your perl packages.
Upgrade Instructions --------------------
wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given below:
apt-get update will update the internal database apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody --------------------------------