CVE-2005-2991

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

ncompress 4.2.4 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files using (1) zdiff or (2) zcmp, a different vulnerability than CVE-2004-0970.

Find out more about CVE-2005-2991 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the ncompress packages as distributed with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, or 4.

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