CVE-2005-0988

Publication date 2 May 2005

Last updated 17 July 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this 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.

Status

No maintained releases are affected by this CVE.

Package Ubuntu Release Status
gzip 7.04 feisty
Fixed 1.3.5-14ubuntu1
6.10 edgy
Fixed 1.3.5-14ubuntu1
6.06 LTS dapper
Fixed 1.3.5-12ubuntu0.1

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

Other references