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CVE-2005-0988

LOW · CVSS 3.7 EPSS 0.66%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2005-05-02 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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CVE
CVE-2005-0988
Severity
LOW
CVSS
3.7
EPSS
0.66%

Original NVD Description

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.