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Race condition in cpio 2.6 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 cpio after the decompression is complete.
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Race condition in cpio 2.6 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 cpio after the decompression is complete.
Family:
unix
Status:
ACCEPTED
Platform(s):
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
- Oracle Linux 4
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
- CentOS Linux 3
- CentOS Linux 4
Class:
vulnerability
Reference(s):
- CVE-2005-1111
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