CVE-2005-1111

Summary

CVECVE-2005-1111
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2005-05-02 04:00:00 UTC
Updated2024-01-26 17:07:00 UTC
DescriptionRace condition in cpio 2.6 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 cpio after the decompression is complete.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-59 | CWE-367

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 4.10 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 5.04 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 3.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 3.1 All All All
Application Gnu Cpio 1.0 All All All
Application Gnu Cpio 1.1 All All All
Application Gnu Cpio 1.2 All All All
Application Gnu Cpio 1.3 All All All
Application Gnu Cpio 2.4-2 All All All
Application Gnu Cpio 2.5 All All All
Application Gnu Cpio 2.5.90 All All All
Application Gnu Cpio 2.6 All All All
Application Gnu Cpio 1.0 All All All
Application Gnu Cpio 1.1 All All All
Application Gnu Cpio 1.2 All All All
Application Gnu Cpio 1.3 All All All
Application Gnu Cpio 2.4-2 All All All
Application Gnu Cpio 2.5 All All All
Application Gnu Cpio 2.5.90 All All All
Application Gnu Cpio 2.6 All All All
Application Gnu Cpio All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Secunia - Advisories - Debian update for cpio SECUNIA secunia.com
SCOSA-2006.2 SCO ftp.sco.com
Secunia - Advisories - Red Hat update for cpio SECUNIA secunia.com
Support REDHAT www.redhat.com
usn/usn-189-1 - Ubuntu Linux UBUNTU www.ubuntu.com
Support REDHAT www.redhat.com
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-846-1 cpio DEBIAN www.debian.org
Secunia - Advisories - FreeBSD update for cpio SECUNIA secunia.com
Repository / Oval Repository OVAL oval.cisecurity.org
SuSE Security announcements: [suse-security-announce] SUSE Security Summary Report SUSE-SR:2006:010 SUSE lists.suse.com
SCOSA-2005.32 SCO ftp.sco.com
Secunia - Advisories - Ubuntu update for cpio SECUNIA secunia.com
CPIO CHMod File Permission Modification Race Condition Weakness BID www.securityfocus.com
FreeBSD-SA-06:03 FREEBSD ftp.freebsd.org
'cpio TOCTOU file-permissions vulnerability' - MARC BUGTRAQ marc.info
15725 OSVDB www.osvdb.org
Secunia - Advisories - SCO OpenServer update for cpio SECUNIA secunia.com
SUSE Updates for Multiple Packages - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
Repository / Oval Repository OVAL oval.cisecurity.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2007-03-14Mark J CoxRed Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.
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