Bug 2023347 (CVE-2005-2991) - CVE-2005-2991 ncompress: insecure tmp file handling may lead to file overwrite
Summary: CVE-2005-2991 ncompress: insecure tmp file handling may lead to file overwrite
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2005-2991
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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Depends On: 2023348
Blocks: 2025827
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Reported: 2021-11-15 13:28 UTC by Marian Rehak
Modified: 2021-12-08 09:09 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: ncompress 4.2.4-r1
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Last Closed: 2021-12-07 11:34:19 UTC
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Description Marian Rehak 2021-11-15 13:28:37 UTC 
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.

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https://bugs.gentoo.org/104878
Comment 1 Marian Rehak 2021-11-15 13:29:46 UTC 
Created ncompress tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2023348]
Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2021-12-07 11:34:17 UTC 
This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2005-2991
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