Arbitrary Code Execution Affecting freebsd package, versions [4.0,5.4]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.38% (87th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FREEBSD-2382881
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed2 May 2005
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 2 May 2005

CVE-2005-0988  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-94  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for freebsd.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution. 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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