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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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2005-04-06T04:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-07T21:35:59.902Z

Reserved: 2005-04-06T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2005-0988

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

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

Modified: 2017-10-11T01:30:02.233

Link: CVE-2005-0988

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2005-04-04T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2005-0988 - Bugzilla