CVE-2005-1111

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2005-04-13
Bugzilla:
1617604: CVE-2005-1111 security flaw

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2005-1111 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (cpio) RHSA-2005:378 2005-07-21
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 RHSA-2005:806 2005-11-10
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (cpio) RHSA-2005:378 2005-07-21

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