CVE-2005-0988 Affecting gzip package, versions <1.3.5-10


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.12% (49th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN9-GZIP-291762
  • published2 May 2005
  • disclosed2 May 2005

Introduced: 2 May 2005

CVE-2005-0988  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:9 gzip to version 1.3.5-10 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream gzip package and not the gzip package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

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