Description
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.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
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n/aaffected
References
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006//Aug/msg00000.html ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22033 ↗
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3101 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21253 ↗
- http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-752 ↗
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-101816-1 ↗
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-357.html ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19289 ↗
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-214A.html ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12996 ↗
- http://www.osvdb.org/15487 ↗
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A765 ↗
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10242 ↗
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1169 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18100 ↗
- http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2006&m=slackware-security.555852 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/394965 ↗