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CVE-2011-1072

Published: 2 March 2011

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.

Notes

AuthorNote
mdeslaur
pear 1.9.2 contains an incomplete fix. CVE-2011-1144 was
assigned to incomplete fix.
sbeattie
maverick and lucid at least are affected, as they contain
PEAR 1.9.1 and 1.9.0 respectively.

Priority

Low

Status

Package Release Status
php5
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
dapper
Released (5.1.2-1ubuntu3.22)
hardy
Released (5.2.4-2ubuntu5.15)
karmic
Released (5.2.10.dfsg.1-2ubuntu6.9)
lucid
Released (5.3.2-1ubuntu4.8)
maverick
Released (5.3.3-1ubuntu9.4)
natty Not vulnerable

upstream
Released (5.2.11.dsfg.1-1)
Patches:
upstream: http://svn.php.net/viewvc?view=revision&revision=308687