CVE-2011-1144

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2010-11-14
Bugzilla:
681982: CVE-2011-1072 php-pear: symlink vulnerability in PEAR installer

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The installer in PEAR 1.9.2 and earlier 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. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2011-1072.

Find out more about CVE-2011-1144 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 2.1
Base Metrics AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact None

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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 php-pear Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 php-pear Not affected
Red Hat Application Stack v2 for Enterprise Linux (v.5) php-pear Will not fix

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