CVE-2005-1111

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...

PT-2005-2128 · Gnu +1 · Cpio +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: cpio versions 2.6 and earlier Description: A race condition issue allows local users to modify permissions of arbitrary files via a hard link attack on a file while it is being decompressed. The permissions of the file are changed by cpio aft...

CVE-2005-1111: Improper Link Resolution Before File Access

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...

CVE-2005-0988

CVE-2005-0988 describes a race condition in gzip prior to 1.3.5 that affects permission handling during decompression. Specifically, when decompressing a file, a local attacker could exploit a hard-link or timing issue to change the permissions of an arbitrary file (or overwrite it) in the target...

CVE-2005-0988

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...

CVE-2005-0988: Undefined Security Weakness

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...

USN-104-1: unshar vulnerability

Joey Hess discovered that "unshar" created temporary files in an insecure manner. This could allow a symbolic link attack to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user invoking the program...

sharutils -- unshar insecure temporary file creation

An Ubuntu Advisory reports: Joey Hess discovered that "unshar" created temporary files in an insecure manner. This could allow a symbolic link attack to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user invoking the program...

CVE-2005-0953

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...

CVE-2005-0953

CVE-2005-0953 (bzip2) : A race condition in bzip2 (versions 1.0.2 and earlier) lets a local user modify the permissions of an arbitrary file during decompression via a hard-link attack on a file while it is being decompressed. This can affect files in a directory where the attacker has write acce...

CVE-2005-0953

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...

CVE-2005-0953: Undefined Security Weakness

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...

USN-100-1: cdrecord vulnerability

Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña noticed that cdrecord created temporary files in an insecure manner if DEBUG was enabled in /etc/cdrecord/rscsi. If the default value was used which stored the debug output file in /tmp, this could allow a symbolic link attack to create or overwrite arbitrary files...

f2c -- insecure temporary files

Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña reports two temporary file vulnerability within f2c. The vulnerabilities are caused due to weak temporary file handling. An attacker could create an symbolic link, causing a local user running f2c to overwrite the symlinked file. This could give the attacker elevate...

USN-70-1: Perl DBI module vulnerability

Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña from the Debian Security Audit Project discovered that the module DBI::ProxyServer in Perl's DBI library created a PID file in an insecure manner. This could allow a symbolic link attack to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user invoking...

USN-65-1: Apache utility script vulnerability

Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña noticed that the "checkforensic" script created temporary files in an insecure manner. This could allow a symbolic link attack to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user invoking the program...

USN-63-1: MySQL client vulnerability

Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña noticed that the "mysqlaccess" program created temporary files in an insecure manner. This could allow a symbolic link attack to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user invoking the program...

CVE-2004-1901

Portage before 2.0.50-r3 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a hard link attack on the lockfiles...

PT-2004-2799 · Gentoo · Portage

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Portage versions prior to 2.0.50-r3 Description: The issue allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a hard link attack on the lockfiles. This is a result of a hard link attack vulnerability in the lockfiles of Portage...

USN-51-1: teTeX auxiliary script vulnerability

Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña noticed that "xdvizilla", an auxiliary script to integrate DVI file viewing in Mozilla-based browsers, created temporary files and directories in an insecure manner. This could allow a symbolic link attack to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges o...