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Fedora: 2017:4e981a51e6 moderate: perl-File-Path Arbitrary Mode Issue

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Calendar Grey June 9, 2017
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An enhancement patch for Fedora 26 resolves a possible unauthorized access problem in the perl-File-Path module.
This release fixes a possible setting arbitrary mode on an arbitrary file in rmtree() and remove_tree() calls known as CVE-2017-6512.

Summary

This module provides a convenient way to create directories of arbitrary

depth and to delete an entire directory subtree from the file system.

This release fixes a possible setting arbitrary mode on an arbitrary file in

rmtree() and remove_tree() calls known as CVE-2017-6512.

[ 1 ] Bug #1457832 - CVE-2017-6512 perl-File-Path: rmtree/remove_tree race condition

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1457832

su -c 'dnf upgrade perl-File-Path' at the command line.

For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the

GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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Change Log

References

Update Instructions

Product: Fedora 26
Version: 2.12
Release: 367.fc26
Summary: Create or remove directory trees

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