CVE-2005-1111 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2005-1111

Race condition in cpio 2.6 and earlier allows local users...

Vulnerability Description

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 Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

cpio, debian linux, ubuntu linux
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 3.0, 3.1, 4.10, 5.04

Timeline

Official Publish: April 16th, 2005
Last Modified: August 7th, 2024
Added to House: July 18th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.