CVE-2005-0077

CVE-2005-0077 affects the perl-DBI (libdbi-perl) library. The issue is insecure handling of temporary files via a symlink attack on a temporary PID file, enabling local users to overwrite arbitrary files. Multiple connected advisories reference updates or patches addressing this vulnerability (e....

USN-70-1: Perl DBI module vulnerability

Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña from the Debian Security Audit Project discovered that the module DBI::ProxyServer in Perl's DBI library created a PID file in an insecure manner. This could allow a symbolic link attack to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user invoking...

perl DBI::ProxyServer module symbolic links problem

Symbolic links problem on pid file creation...

Perl: rmtree and DBI tmpfile vulnerabilities

Background Perl is a cross platform programming language. The DBI is the standard database interface module for Perl. Description Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena discovered that the DBI library creates temporary files in an insecure, predictable way CAN-2005-0077. Paul Szabo found out that...

DSA-658-1 libdbi-perl - insecure temporary file

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CVE-2004-0702

Bugzilla 2.17.1–2.17.7 is affected by CVE-2004-0702: the DBI layer displays the database password in an error message when the SQL server is not running, enabling potential information disclosure to remote attackers. The issue concerns the Bugzilla CGI/database interaction rather than input valid...