Vulnerability in FreeBSD
CVE-2005-0988
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.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 3.7 (Low). Vector: AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.007 (51.4th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 51st percentile — 51.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.007 · newest: 0.007 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- FreeBSD — versions 4.0, 4.1, 4.1.1
- Gentoo Linux
- GNU Gzip — versions 1.2.4, 1.2.4a, 1.3.3
- Trustix Secure Linux — versions 2.0, 2.1, 2.2
- Turbolinux Appliance Server — versions 1.0_hosting, 1.0_workgroup
- Turbolinux Desktop — versions 10.0
- Turbolinux Home
- Turbolinux Server — versions 7.0, 8.0, 10.0
- Turbolinux Workstation — versions 7.0, 8.0
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux — versions 2.1, 3.0, 4.0
References
- lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006//Aug/msg00000.html (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/22033 (third-party-advisory)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3101 (vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/21253 (third-party-advisory)
- www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-752 (vendor-advisory)
- sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do (vendor-advisory)
- rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-357.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/19289 (vdb-entry)
- www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-214A.html (US Government Resource, third-party-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/12996 (Patch, vdb-entry)