| Name | CVE-2017-6512 |
| Description | Race condition in the rmtree and remove_tree functions in the File-Path module before 2.13 for Perl allows attackers to set the mode on arbitrary files via vectors involving directory-permission loosening logic. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-978-1, DSA-3873-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 863870 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| perl (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 5.20.2-3+deb8u14 | fixed |
| stretch (security) | 5.24.1-3+deb9u5 | fixed |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 5.24.1-3+deb9u8 | fixed |
| buster, buster (lts) | 5.28.1-6+deb10u2 | fixed |
| bullseye | 5.32.1-4+deb11u3 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 5.32.1-4+deb11u4 | fixed |
| bookworm | 5.36.0-7+deb12u1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 5.40.0-7 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=121951
https://github.com/jkeenan/File-Path/commit/e5ef95276ee8ad471c66ee574a5d42552b3a6af2