Debian DSA-730-1 : bzip2 - race condition

Imran Ghory discovered a race condition in bzip2, a high-quality block-sorting file compressor and decompressor. When decompressing a file in a directory an attacker has access to, bunzip2 could be tricked to set the file permissions to a different file the user has permissions to. %NASLMINLEVEL...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : bzip2 (MDKSA-2005:091)

A race condition in the file permission restore code of bunzip2 was discovered by Imran Ghory. While a user was decompressing a file, a local attacker with write permissions to the directory containing the compressed file could replace the target file with a hard link which would cause bunzip2 to...

unarj: Long filenames buffer overflow and a path traversal vulnerability

Background unarj is an ARJ archive decompressor. Description unarj has a bounds checking vulnerability within the handling of long filenames in archives. It also fails to properly sanitize paths when extracting an archive if the "x" option is used to preserve paths. Impact An attacker could trigg...