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CVE-2005-2475

• Severity: low (CVSS 1.2 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: 2005-08-05 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

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.

Affected products

• Info-ZIP UnZip: 5.52

References

• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112300046224117&w=2
• http://secunia.com/advisories/16309
• http://secunia.com/advisories/16985
• http://secunia.com/advisories/17006
• http://secunia.com/advisories/17045
• http://secunia.com/advisories/17342
• http://secunia.com/advisories/17653
• http://secunia.com/advisories/25098
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/32
• http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-903
• http://www.info-zip.org/FAQ.html

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