Race condition in Unzip 5.52 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 Unzip after the decompression is complete.
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Race condition in Unzip 5.52 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 Unzip after the decompression is complete.
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| text | N/A | n/a |
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| Event | Date |
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| Hyperlink | Resource |
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| http://secunia.com/advisories/25098 | third-party-advisory x_refsource_SECUNIA x_transferred |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/17653 | third-party-advisory x_refsource_SECUNIA x_transferred |
| http://www.info-zip.org/FAQ.html | x_refsource_CONFIRM x_transferred |
| http://www.trustix.org/errata/2005/0053/ | vendor-advisory x_refsource_TRUSTIX x_transferred |
| http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-191-1 | vendor-advisory x_refsource_UBUNTU x_transferred |
| http://www.osvdb.org/18530 | vdb-entry x_refsource_OSVDB x_transferred |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14450 | vdb-entry x_refsource_BID x_transferred |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/17342 | third-party-advisory x_refsource_SECUNIA x_transferred |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/16985 | third-party-advisory x_refsource_SECUNIA x_transferred |
| ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenServer/SCOSA-2005.39/SCOSA-2005.39.txt | vendor-advisory x_refsource_SCO x_transferred |
| http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112300046224117&w=2 | mailing-list x_refsource_BUGTRAQ x_transferred |
| http://securityreason.com/securityalert/32 | third-party-advisory x_refsource_SREASON x_transferred |
| http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-903 | vendor-advisory x_refsource_DEBIAN x_transferred |
| http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0203.html | vendor-advisory x_refsource_REDHAT x_transferred |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/17045 | third-party-advisory x_refsource_SECUNIA x_transferred |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/17006 | third-party-advisory x_refsource_SECUNIA x_transferred |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/16309 | third-party-advisory x_refsource_SECUNIA x_transferred |
| https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9975 | vdb-entry signature x_refsource_OVAL x_transferred |
| http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:197 | vendor-advisory x_refsource_MANDRIVA x_transferred |
Race condition in Unzip 5.52 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 Unzip after the decompression is complete.
| Date Added | Due Date | Vulnerability Name | Required Action |
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| N/A |
| Type | Version | Base score | Base severity | Vector |
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| Primary | 2.0 | 1.2 | LOW | AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N |
| CWE ID | Type | Source |
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| NVD-CWE-Other | Primary | nvd@nist.gov |
Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=164927 The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact, a future update may address this flaw. More information regarding issue severity can be found here: http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/ Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch. The risks associated with fixing this bug are greater than the low severity security risk. We therefore currently have no plans to fix this flaw in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 which is in maintenance mode.