CVE-2005-2475
Published Aug 5, 2005
Last updated 7 years ago
Overview
- 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.
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
- NVD status
- Modified
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Risk scores
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 1.2
- Impact score
- 2.9
- Exploitability score
- 1.9
- Vector string
- AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
- nvd@nist.gov
- NVD-CWE-Other
Vendor comments
- Red HatRed Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=164927 The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact, a future update may address this flaw. More information regarding issue severity can be found here: http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/ Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch. The risks associated with fixing this bug are greater than the low severity security risk. We therefore currently have no plans to fix this flaw in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 which is in maintenance mode.
Configurations
[
{
"nodes": [
{
"negate": false,
"cpeMatch": [
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:info-zip:unzip:5.52:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "B6E12425-5797-46E1-AD6E-0F6616A36A50"
}
],
"operator": "OR"
}
]
}
]