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.
Published 2005-05-02 04:00:00
Updated 2018-10-19 15:31:26
Source MITRE
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Products affected by CVE-2005-0953

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2005-0953

0.35%
Probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days EPSS Score History
~ 72 %
Percentile, the proportion of vulnerabilities that are scored at or less

CVSS scores for CVE-2005-0953

Base Score Base Severity CVSS Vector Exploitability Score Impact Score Score Source First Seen
3.7
LOW AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
1.9
6.4
NIST

Vendor statements for CVE-2005-0953

  • Red Hat 2007-03-14
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.

References for CVE-2005-0953

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