CVE-2005-2991

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Summary

CVECVE-2005-2991
StatePUBLISHED
Assignerredhat
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2005-09-20 20:03:00 UTC
Updated2025-04-03 01:03:51 UTC
Descriptionncompress 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 2.1 from [email protected]

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

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Partial
Availability
None

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

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Ncompress Ncompress All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
ncompress insecure temporary file creation - CXSecurity.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 securityreason.com
'[Full-disclosure] ncompress insecure temporary file creation' - MARC af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 marc.info
'ncompress insecure temporary file creation' - MARC af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 marc.info
ZATAZ » Page non trouvée af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.zataz.net Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2006-08-30Mark J CoxNot vulnerable. This issue did not affect the ncompress packages as distributed with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, or 4.

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