There's a very nebulously worded security announcement at Security Focus which claims that there's an unspecified temp file handling vulnerability in perl 5.8.3, which "is unlikely to facilitate privilege escalation".

Does anyone know if there's a real problem and have more details, or is it just that "it's possible to write bad temp file handing in perl" (which seems like a given :)) ?

There are a whole spate of "unspecified and vaguely worded temp file vulnerability discovery" warnings that Trustix just posted, so I don't know if they've made a discovery of a new class of errors...

A quick look/search through p5p archives didn't find anything. (Edit: Neither did downloading the mbox files and running a bunch of grepmail searches on recent months...)

(Edit^2: The advisory is also vague, but makes it sound as if it's a script shipped with perl that has the problem. Maybe one of the installation routines?)


Mike

In reply to Insecure temp file handling vulnerability in perl? by RMGir

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