PT-2005-1977 · Bzip2+1 · Bzip2+1

Imran Ghory · Published 2005-04-03 · Updated 2018-10-19 · CVE-2005-0953

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

3.7

Low

Base vector

AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions bzip2 versions 1.0.2 and earlier

Description A race condition issue exists, allowing local users to modify permissions of arbitrary files via a hard link attack on a file while it is being decompressed. This occurs because the permissions of the file are changed by bzip2 after the decompression is complete.

Recommendations For bzip2 versions 1.0.2 and earlier, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Related Identifiers

CVE-2005-0953

DSA-730-1

RHSA-2005:474

RHSA-2005_474

Affected Products

Red Hat

Bzip2

References · 33

• ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060301-01.U.asc · Vendor Advisory
• http://redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-474.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2005-0953 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-0953 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2005-0953 · Vendor Advisory
• http://fedoralegacy.org/updates/FC2/2005-11-14-FLSA_2005_158801__Updated_bzip2_packages_fix_security_issues.html · Vendor Advisory
• ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2008-004.txt.asc · Vendor Advisory
• http://openpkg.com/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2007.002.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:026 · Vendor Advisory
• http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-200191-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103118-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Nov/msg00002.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2005-0953 · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2005/dsa-730 · Vendor Advisory
• https://redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2005-0758.html · Note