Vulnerability in Ncompress

CVE-2005-2991

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.

EPSS: 0.004 (29.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Ncompress
N/a — versions n/a

References

secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_SREASON, third-party-advisory)
secalert@redhat.com (mailing-list, x_refsource_FULLDISC)
secalert@redhat.com (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)