CVE-2005-2991
Published Sep 20, 2005
Last updated 8 years ago
Overview
- Description
- ncompress 4.2.4 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files using (1) zdiff or (2) zcmp, a different vulnerability than CVE-2004-0970.
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
- NVD status
- Modified
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Risk scores
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 2.1
- Impact score
- 2.9
- Exploitability score
- 3.9
- Vector string
- AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses
- nvd@nist.gov
- NVD-CWE-Other
Vendor comments
- Red HatNot vulnerable. This issue did not affect the ncompress packages as distributed with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, or 4.
Configurations
[
{
"nodes": [
{
"negate": false,
"cpeMatch": [
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:ncompress:ncompress:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "2B6EBAF3-A0BB-4E0B-9D26-80E824594F2E",
"versionEndIncluding": "4.2.4_r1"
}
],
"operator": "OR"
}
]
}
]