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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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2011-03-03T00:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T22:14:27.851Z

Reserved: 2011-03-02T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2011-1144

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2011-03-03T01:00:01.677

Modified: 2025-04-11T00:51:21.963

Link: CVE-2011-1144

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2010-11-14T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2011-1144 - Bugzilla