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CVE-2005-0953

LOW CVSS: 3.7 Published: 2005-05-02 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

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.

Affected Platforms

Bzip Bzip2

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References