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CVE-2005-2991

• Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 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: 2005-09-20 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

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.

Affected products

• Ncompress: through 4.2.4_r1

References

• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112689772732098&w=2
• http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=112688098630314&w=2
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/12
• http://www.zataz.net/adviso/ncompress-09052005.txt
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112689772732098&w=2
• http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=112688098630314&w=2
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/12
• http://www.zataz.net/adviso/ncompress-09052005.txt

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