CVE-2005-1111

Description

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.

Category

4.7
CVSS
Severity: Medium
CVSS 3.1 •
CVSS 2.0 •
EPSS 0.07%
Vendor Advisory sco.com Vendor Advisory freebsd.org Vendor Advisory redhat.com Vendor Advisory debian.org Vendor Advisory ubuntu.com Vendor Advisory suse.com Vendor Advisory redhat.com Vendor Advisory sco.com
Affected: n/a n/a
Published at:
Updated at:

References

Link Tags
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111342664116120&w=2 mailing list
http://secunia.com/advisories/17532 third party advisory broken link
ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenServer/SCOSA-2006.2/SCOSA-2006.2.txt vendor advisory broken link
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:03.cpio.asc vendor advisory broken link
http://secunia.com/advisories/17123 third party advisory broken link
http://www.osvdb.org/15725 vdb entry broken link
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-378.html vendor advisory broken link
http://secunia.com/advisories/16998 third party advisory broken link
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13159 vdb entry third party advisory broken link
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-846 third party advisory vendor advisory
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-189-1 third party advisory vendor advisory
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-May/0004.html vendor advisory broken link
http://secunia.com/advisories/20117 third party advisory broken link
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9783 vdb entry signature broken link
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A358 vdb entry signature broken link
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-806.html vendor advisory broken link
ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/UnixWare/SCOSA-2005.32/SCOSA-2005.32.txt vendor advisory broken link
http://secunia.com/advisories/18395 third party advisory broken link
http://secunia.com/advisories/18290 third party advisory broken link

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2005-1111?
CVE-2005-1111 has been scored as a medium severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2005-1111?
To fix CVE-2005-1111, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2005-1111 being actively exploited in the wild?
As for now, there are no information to confirm that CVE-2005-1111 is being actively exploited. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~0% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.
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