CVE-2005-0953

Severity Score

5.5

*CVSS v3

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

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.

*Credits: N/A

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

High

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

Partial

Integrity

Partial

Availability

Partial

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2005-04-03 CVE Reserved
2005-04-03 CVE Published
2024-08-07 CVE Updated
2025-03-30 EPSS Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date
---------- First Exploit

CWE

CAPEC

References (27)

URL	Tag	Source
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307041	X_refsource_confirm
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111229375217633&w=2	Mailing List
http://secunia.com/advisories/19183	Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/27274	Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/27643	Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/29940	Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/456430/30/8730/threaded	Mailing List
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12954	Vdb Entry
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26444	Vdb Entry
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-319A.html	Third Party Advisory
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3525	Vdb Entry
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3868	Vdb Entry
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/19926	Vdb Entry
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10902	Signature
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1154	Signature

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-730	2018-10-19

URL	Date	SRC
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2008-004.txt.asc	2018-10-19
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060301-01.U.asc	2018-10-19
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Nov/msg00002.html	2018-10-19
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103118-1	2018-10-19
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-200191-1	2018-10-19
http://www.fedoralegacy.org/updates/FC2/2005-11-14-FLSA_2005_158801__Updated_bzip2_packages_fix_security_issues.html	2018-10-19
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:026	2018-10-19
http://www.openpkg.com/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2007.002.html	2018-10-19
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-474.html	2018-10-19
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2005-0953	2005-06-16
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1617590	2005-06-16

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Bzip Search vendor "Bzip"		Bzip2 Search vendor "Bzip" for product "Bzip2"				0.9 Search vendor "Bzip" for product "Bzip2" and version "0.9"		-		Affected
Bzip Search vendor "Bzip"		Bzip2 Search vendor "Bzip" for product "Bzip2"				0.9.5_a Search vendor "Bzip" for product "Bzip2" and version "0.9.5_a"		-		Affected
Bzip Search vendor "Bzip"		Bzip2 Search vendor "Bzip" for product "Bzip2"				0.9.5_b Search vendor "Bzip" for product "Bzip2" and version "0.9.5_b"		-		Affected
Bzip Search vendor "Bzip"		Bzip2 Search vendor "Bzip" for product "Bzip2"				0.9.5_c Search vendor "Bzip" for product "Bzip2" and version "0.9.5_c"		-		Affected
Bzip Search vendor "Bzip"		Bzip2 Search vendor "Bzip" for product "Bzip2"				0.9.5_d Search vendor "Bzip" for product "Bzip2" and version "0.9.5_d"		-		Affected
Bzip Search vendor "Bzip"		Bzip2 Search vendor "Bzip" for product "Bzip2"				0.9_a Search vendor "Bzip" for product "Bzip2" and version "0.9_a"		-		Affected
Bzip Search vendor "Bzip"		Bzip2 Search vendor "Bzip" for product "Bzip2"				0.9_b Search vendor "Bzip" for product "Bzip2" and version "0.9_b"		-		Affected
Bzip Search vendor "Bzip"		Bzip2 Search vendor "Bzip" for product "Bzip2"				0.9_c Search vendor "Bzip" for product "Bzip2" and version "0.9_c"		-		Affected
Bzip Search vendor "Bzip"		Bzip2 Search vendor "Bzip" for product "Bzip2"				1.0 Search vendor "Bzip" for product "Bzip2" and version "1.0"		-		Affected
Bzip Search vendor "Bzip"		Bzip2 Search vendor "Bzip" for product "Bzip2"				1.0.1 Search vendor "Bzip" for product "Bzip2" and version "1.0.1"		-		Affected
Bzip Search vendor "Bzip"		Bzip2 Search vendor "Bzip" for product "Bzip2"				1.0.2 Search vendor "Bzip" for product "Bzip2" and version "1.0.2"		-		Affected