CVE-2005-2991

Description

ncompress 4.2.4 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files using (1) zdiff or (2) zcmp, a different vulnerability than CVE-2004-0970.

References

http://www.zataz.net/adviso/ncompress-09052005.txt

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/12

http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=112688098630314&w=2

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112689772732098&w=2

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3

EPSS