CVE-2005-0953 describes a race condition vulnerability in bzip2 versions 1.0.2 and earlier, affecting the bzip and bzip2 products. This flaw allows a local attacker to perform a hard link attack during decompression, enabling them to modify permissions of arbitrary files. The vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 3.7, indicating a local attack vector with high attack complexity, and potential for partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, no known exploit code in Metasploit or ExploitDB, and minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
0.9CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:bzip:bzip2:0.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.9.5_aCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:bzip:bzip2:0.9.5_a:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.9.5_bCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:bzip:bzip2:0.9.5_b:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.9.5_cCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:bzip:bzip2:0.9.5_c:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.9.5_dCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:bzip:bzip2:0.9.5_d:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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