CVE-2005-0953

Severity: low (CVSS 3.7 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-05-02 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Race condition in bzip2 1.0.2 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 bzip2 after the decompression is complete.

Affected products

Bzip2: 0.9, 0.9.5_a, 0.9.5_b, 0.9.5_c, 0.9.5_d, 0.9_a (+5)

References

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307041
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Nov/msg00002.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111229375217633&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/19183
http://secunia.com/advisories/27274
http://secunia.com/advisories/27643
http://secunia.com/advisories/29940
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103118-1
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-200191-1
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-730

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