CVE-2005-1111 – Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 200506-16

https://notcve.org/view.php?id=CVE-2005-1111

16 Apr 2005 — 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. Imran Ghory found a race condition in the handling of output files. While a file was unpacked with cpio, a local attacker with write permissions to the target directory could exploit this to change the permissions of arbitrary files of the cpio user. (CVE-2005-1111) Imran ... • ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:03.cpio.asc • CWE-59: Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following') CWE-367: Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition •