Race condition vulnerability in bzip2 allows local users to modify file permissions via a hard link attack during decompression

CVE-2005-0953 · LOW Severity

AV:L/AC:H/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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.

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