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Bug 479370 (CVE-2013-4184) - dev-perl/Data-UUID: Symlink attacks (CVE-2013-4184)
Summary: dev-perl/Data-UUID: Symlink attacks (CVE-2013-4184)
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Alias: CVE-2013-4184
Product: Gentoo Security
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal minor (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Security
URL: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-sec...
Whiteboard: B3 [noglsa cve]
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Reported: 2013-08-01 08:53 UTC by Agostino Sarubbo
Modified: 2018-04-09 00:23 UTC (History)
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Description Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2013-08-01 08:53:43 UTC
From ${URL} :

The Perl module Data::UUID from CPAN is vulnerable to symlink attacks.
 This is a widely used Perl module for generating UUIDs.

Details are in the bug report on github:
https://github.com/rjbs/Data-UUID/issues/5

I believe all released versions are affected - I have confirmed the
issue against 1.219.

Regarding affected distributions, note that Debian and Fedora do not
ship Data::UUID from CPAN - they use OSSP's uuid.  However, at least
Arch and Gentoo seem to ship the CPAN version.


@maintainer(s): after the bump, in case we need to stabilize the package, please say explicitly if it is ready for the stabilization or not.
Comment 1 Andreas K. Hüttel archtester gentoo-dev 2014-10-27 21:32:04 UTC
"Regarding affected distributions, note that Debian and Fedora do not
ship Data::UUID from CPAN - they use OSSP's uuid.  However, at least
Arch and Gentoo seem to ship the CPAN version."

I doubt that Data::UUID and ossp-uuid[perl] are interchangeable. 

Masking is also not an option yet since there is a chain of dependencies.

No patch has materialized.
Comment 2 Andreas K. Hüttel archtester gentoo-dev 2017-01-20 22:13:25 UTC
No news from upstream.
Comment 3 Aaron Bauman (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2018-04-09 00:23:18 UTC
This is protected against by fs.protected_symlinks which is on by default in gentoo-sources that is security supported.