Bug 1617595 (CVE-2005-0988) - CVE-2005-0988 security flaw
Summary: CVE-2005-0988 security flaw
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: CVE-2005-0988
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Reported: 2018-08-16 04:07 UTC by Stephen Herr
Modified: 2021-02-16 23:24 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2018-08-16 04:07:51 UTC
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Description Stephen Herr 2018-08-16 04:07:46 UTC
Flaw bug created to hold information about an old flaw we knew something about. For more details see the MITRE CVE description.

Comment 1 Stephen Herr 2018-08-16 16:16:26 UTC
MITRE 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.

Comment 2 Stephen Herr 2019-06-13 19:22:50 UTC
Statement:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.


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