CVE-2005-2991 (GCVE-0-2005-2991)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2005-09-20 04:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 22:53
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
4 references
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| http://www.zataz.net/adviso/ncompress-09052005.txt | x_refsource_MISC |
Date Public
2005-09-16 00:00
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