CVE-2005-0988
Publication date 2 May 2005
Last updated 24 July 2024
Ubuntu priority
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.