CVE-2008-5303

Name	CVE-2008-5303
Description	Race condition in the rmtree function in File::Path 1.08 (lib/File/Path.pm) in Perl 5.8.8 allows local users to to delete arbitrary files via a symlink attack, a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-0448, CVE-2004-0452, and CVE-2008-2827. NOTE: this is a regression error related to CVE-2005-0448. It is different from CVE-2008-5302 due to affected versions.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
References	DSA-1678-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
perl (PTS)	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.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
perl	source	etch	5.8.8-7etch5		DSA-1678-1
perl	source	(unstable)	5.10.0-18