CVE-2005-0953

medium

Description

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.

References

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1154

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10902

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/19926

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3868

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3525

http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-319A.html

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26444

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12954

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/456430/30/8730/threaded

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-474.html

http://www.openpkg.com/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2007.002.html

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:026

http://www.fedoralegacy.org/updates/FC2/2005-11-14-FLSA_2005_158801__Updated_bzip2_packages_fix_security_issues.html

http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-730

http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-200191-1

http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103118-1

http://secunia.com/advisories/29940

http://secunia.com/advisories/27643

http://secunia.com/advisories/27274

http://secunia.com/advisories/19183

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111229375217633&w=2

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Nov/msg00002.html

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307041

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2005-05-02

Updated: 2018-10-19

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium