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CVE-2011-1144 low priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (php5), 7 status rows across 7 suites (dapper, hardy, karmic, lucid, maverick, natty, upstream): released 6, needs-triage 1.
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.