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Bug 155742

Summary: CAN-2005-0953 bzip2 race condition
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component: bzip2Assignee: Jiri Ryska <jryska>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Ben Levenson <benl>
Severity: low Docs Contact:
Priority: medium    
Version: 4.0Keywords: Security
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Whiteboard: impact=low,public=20050330,source=bugtraq,reported=20050330
Fixed In Version: RHSA-2005-474 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2006-02-13 15:18:19 UTC Type: ---
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Proposed patch from Steve Grubb none

Description Josh Bressers 2005-04-22 17:47:27 UTC 
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.

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=111229375217633&w=2
Comment 1 Josh Bressers 2005-04-22 17:50:53 UTC 
This issue should also affect RHEL3 and RHEL2.1
Comment 2 Josh Bressers 2005-04-29 14:01:04 UTC 
Created attachment 113842 [details]
Proposed patch from Steve Grubb
Comment 3 Josh Bressers 2005-06-16 17:58:55 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-474.html
Comment 4 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-13 15:18:21 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-474.html