cve-2005-2991
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2005-09-20 04:00
Modified
2024-08-07 22:53
Severity ?
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.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112689772732098&w=2
secalert@redhat.comhttp://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=112688098630314&w=2
secalert@redhat.comhttp://securityreason.com/securityalert/12
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.zataz.net/adviso/ncompress-09052005.txtVendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112689772732098&w=2
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=112688098630314&w=2
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://securityreason.com/securityalert/12
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.zataz.net/adviso/ncompress-09052005.txtVendor Advisory
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