CVE-2005-0988

Home/CVE/Race condition in gzip 1.2.4, 1.3.3, and earlier, when decompressing a gzipped file, allows local users to modify permis

CVE

Race condition in gzip 1.2.4, 1.3.3, and earlier, when decompressing a gzipped file, allows local users to modify permis

Race condition in gzip 1.2.4, 1.3.3, and earlier, when decompressing a gzipped file, 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 gzip after the decompression is complete.

LOW · CVSS 3.7 EPSS 0.00115

Monitor

No active-exploitation, high-EPSS, or public-exploit signals - routine patching cadence

Sigma rules3 YARA rules0

▤

Affected Products & Versions

gnu gzipall versions

freebsdall versions

◈

Sigma Hunt Rules

Exact rules name this CVE ID. Product rules name an affected product in their title. Related rules cover techniques used by actors who exploited this CVE. Showing the most relevant matches; the complete related set is on the full drill-down.

productmediumSuspicious FromBase64String Usage On Gzip Archive - Ps Script

productmediumGzip Archive Decode Via PowerShell

productmediumSuspicious FromBase64String Usage On Gzip Archive - Process Creation

▣

Scoring & Timeline

3.7

LOW · CVSS v2 (legacy) · cve@mitre.org

View on NVD

This CVE predates CVSS v3; the legacy v2 score is shown so triage still has a severity to work with.

v2 Vector

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

Published to NVD02 May 2005 · 04:00 AM

⚑

Vendor Advisories

usnUSN-116-1

rhsaRHSA-2005:357Low

🔗

References & Sources

Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.

ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/UnixWare/SCOSA-2005.58/SCOSA-2005.58.txt

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006//Aug/msg00000.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-357.html

http://secunia.com/advisories/18100

http://secunia.com/advisories/21253

http://secunia.com/advisories/22033

Show all 18 references

http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2006&m=slackware-security.555852

http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-101816-1

http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-752

http://www.osvdb.org/15487

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/394965Vendor Advisory

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12996Patch

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19289

http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-214A.htmlUS Government Resource

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3101

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10242

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1169

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A765

Intelligence Graph · click any node to traverse

CVETechnique ActorTool Family

drag to reposition · click any node to traverse · button top-right enlarges

External lookups - second-class, for what we don’t hold ourselves

NVD CVE.org CISA Vulners Exploit-DB GitHub PoC VulnCheck KEV GreyNoise

Vulnerabilities
CISA KEV catalog
CWE weaknesses
CAPEC attack patterns
Package vulnerabilities

Threat intelligence
Threat actors
Tools & malware
ATT&CK techniques
IOCs

Detection & defense
Sigma rules
YARA rules
Atomic Red Team tests
D3FEND countermeasures

Compliance
NIST 800-53
ISO 27001:2022
SOC 2 TSC
PCI-DSS v4.0
CIS Controls v8.1

About
All capabilities
Live statistics
Data sources
Privacy policy
Terms of service

threatengine.sh · Open-source threat intelligence platform · 100+ authoritative sources · Every fact traces to its origin