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CVE-2005-0988

• Severity: low (CVSS 3.7 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.7% 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 gzip 1.2.4, 1.3.3, and earlier, when decompressing a gzipped file, 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 gzip after the decompression is complete.

Affected products

• FreeBSD: 4.0, 4.0-alpha, 4.0-releng, 4.1, 4.1.1, 4.1.1-release (+61)
• gentoo Linux: all versions
• GNU gzip: 1.2.4, 1.2.4a, 1.3.3
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 2.1, 3.0, 4.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 3.0, 4.0
• RedHat Linux Advanced Workstation: 2.1
• Trustix Secure Linux: 2.0, 2.1, 2.2
• Turbolinux Appliance Server: 1.0_hosting, 1.0_workgroup
• Turbolinux Desktop: 10.0
• Turbolinux Home: all versions
• Turbolinux Server: 7.0, 8.0, 10.0
• Turbolinux Workstation: 7.0, 8.0
• Ubuntu Linux: 4.1, 5.04

References

• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006//Aug/msg00000.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-357.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/18100
• http://secunia.com/advisories/21253
• http://secunia.com/advisories/22033
• http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2006&m=slackware-security.555852
• http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-101816-1
• http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-752
• http://www.osvdb.org/15487
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/394965
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12996

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