CVE-2005-0953
EPSS 0.09%bzip2 - race condition
Published: 5/2/2005Modified: 4/28/2026
Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2005-0953
Description
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.
Affected packages (2)
- Debian/bzip2from 0, < 1.0.2-6
- Debian/bzip2from 0, < 1.0.2-1.woody2