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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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2005-0989 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-116-1 gzip vulnerabilities
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

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

Reserved: 2005-04-06T04:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2005-0988

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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-2005-0988

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

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

Links: CVE-2005-0988 - Bugzilla

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