CVE-2011-1144 (GCVE-0-2011-1144)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2011-03-03 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 22:14
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Summary
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.
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