Race condition in cpio 2.6 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 cpio after the decompression is complete.

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Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-189-1 cpio vulnerabilities
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T21:35:59.943Z

Reserved: 2005-04-16T04:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2005-1111

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Status : Deferred

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

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

Link: CVE-2005-1111

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2005-04-13T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2005-1111 - Bugzilla

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