National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2005-1111
Original release date:05/02/2005
Last revised:09/10/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
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.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
Exploitability Subscore:
1.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: High
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
- Official Statement from Red Hat (03/14/2007)
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.
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External Source: BID
Name: 13159
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20050413 cpio TOCTOU file-permissions vulnerability
Type: Advisory
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-189-1
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2005:806
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2005:378
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 15725
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-846
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 20117
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 18395
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 18290
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 17532
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 17123
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 16998
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SR:2006:010
External Source: SCO
Name: SCOSA-2005.32
External Source: SCO
Name: SCOSA-2006.2
External Source: FREEBSD
Name: FreeBSD-SA-06:03
US Government Resource: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:358
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:358
Type: Tool Signature