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Entered | Topic |
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2005-06-18 | gzip -- directory traversal and permission race vulnerabilities |
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Type | Candidate |
Name | CVE-2005-0988 |
Phase | Assigned(20050406) |
Race condition in gzip 1.2.4, 1.3.3, and earlier, when decompressing a gzipped file, allows local users to modify permissions of arbitrary files via a hard link attack on a file while it is being decompressed, whose permissions are changed by gzip after the decompression is complete.
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