CVE-2005-1111 Information

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.

Reference

ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:03.cpio.asc ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenServer/SCOSA-2006.2/SCOSA-2006.2.txt ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/UnixWare/SCOSA-2005.32/SCOSA-2005.32.txt http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-May/0004.html http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111342664116120&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/16998 http://secunia.com/advisories/17123 http://secunia.com/advisories/17532 http://secunia.com/advisories/18290 http://secunia.com/advisories/18395 http://secunia.com/advisories/20117 http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-846 http://www.osvdb.org/15725 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-378.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-806.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13159 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-189-1 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A358 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A9783