Race condition in bzip2 1.0.2 and earlier 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 bzip2 after the decompression is complete.

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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2005-0954 Race condition in bzip2 1.0.2 and earlier 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 bzip2 after the decompression is complete.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-127-1 bzip2 vulnerabilities
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ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2008-004.txt.asc cve-icon cve-icon
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060301-01.U.asc cve-icon cve-icon
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307041 cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Nov/msg00002.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111229375217633&w=2 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/19183 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/27274 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/27643 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/29940 cve-icon cve-icon
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103118-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-200191-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-730 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.fedoralegacy.org/updates/FC2/2005-11-14-FLSA_2005_158801__Updated_bzip2_packages_fix_security_issues.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:026 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.openpkg.com/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2007.002.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-474.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/456430/30/8730/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12954 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26444 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-319A.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3525 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3868 cve-icon cve-icon
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/19926 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-0953 cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10902 cve-icon cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1154 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2005-0953 cve-icon
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T21:28:29.118Z

Reserved: 2005-04-03T05:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2005-0953

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2005-05-02T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2025-04-03T01:03:51.193

Link: CVE-2005-0953

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2005-03-30T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2005-0953 - Bugzilla

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