CVE-2005-2475

N/A Unknown

Published: August 05, 2005 Modified: April 16, 2026

Description

Race condition in Unzip 5.52 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 Unzip after the decompression is complete.

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenServer/SCOSA-2005.39/SCOSA-2005.39.txt

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112300046224117&w=2

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://secunia.com/advisories/16309

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://secunia.com/advisories/16985

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://secunia.com/advisories/17006

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://secunia.com/advisories/17045

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://secunia.com/advisories/17342

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://secunia.com/advisories/17653

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://secunia.com/advisories/25098

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/32

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-903

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.info-zip.org/FAQ.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:197

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.osvdb.org/18530

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0203.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14450

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.trustix.org/errata/2005/0053/

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-191-1

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9975

Source: cve@mitre.org

ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenServer/SCOSA-2005.39/SCOSA-2005.39.txt