CVE-2011-1072
low
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
3.3
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
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Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| php | pear | {"endIncluding":"1.9.1"} | |
| php | pear | 0.2.2 | |
| php | pear | 0.9 | |
| php | pear | 0.10 | |
| php | pear | 0.11 | |
| php | pear | 0.90 | |
| php | pear | 1.0 | |
| php | pear | 1.0.1 | |
| php | pear | 1.1 | |
| php | pear | 1.2 | |
| php | pear | 1.2.1 | |
| php | pear | 1.3 | |
| php | pear | 1.3.1 | |
| php | pear | 1.3.3 | |
| php | pear | 1.3.3.1 | |
| php | pear | 1.3.4 | |
| php | pear | 1.3.5 | |
| php | pear | 1.3.6 | |
| php | pear | 1.4.0 | |
| php | pear | 1.4.1 | |
| php | pear | 1.4.2 | |
| php | pear | 1.5.0 | |
| php | pear | 1.5.1 | |
| php | pear | 1.6.1 | |
References
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=546164
- http://news.php.net/php.pear.cvs/61264
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/28/12
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/28/3
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/28/5
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/01/4
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/01/5
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/01/7
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/01/8
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/01/9
- http://pear.php.net/advisory-20110228.txt
- http://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=18056
- http://secunia.com/advisories/43533
- http://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-1072
- http://svn.php.net/viewvc?view=revision&revision=308687
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:187
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1741.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46605
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/65721
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=546164
- http://news.php.net/php.pear.cvs/61264
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/28/12
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/28/3
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/28/5
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/01/4
CWEs
CWE-59
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.