CVE-2016-10374

Summary

perltidy through 20160302, as used by perlcritic, check-all-the-things, and other software, relies on the current working directory for certain output files and does not have a symlink-attack protection mechanism, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files by creating a symlink, as demonstrated by creating a perltidy.ERR symlink that the victim cannot delete.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
n/an/an/aaffected

Weaknesses

  • n/a

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

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