Vulnerability in Bzip Bzip2

CVE-2005-0953

Race condition in bzip2 1.0.2 and earlier 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 bzip2 after the decompression is complete.

EPSS: 0.004 (32.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Bzip Bzip2 — versions 0.9, 0.9.5_a, 0.9.5_b
  • N/a — versions n/a

References