CVE-2005-2991 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity High

Privileges Required Low

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact Low

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Local

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Ncompress	Ncompress

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:ncompress:ncompress:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

No data.

References

Link	Providers
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112689772732098&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=112688098630314&w=2
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/12
http://www.zataz.net/adviso/ncompress-09052005.txt
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-2991
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2005-2991

History

No history.

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2005-09-20T04:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-07T22:53:29.867Z

Reserved: 2005-09-20T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2005-2991

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2005-09-20T20:03:00.000

Modified: 2025-04-03T01:03:51.193

Link: CVE-2005-2991

Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2021-11-09T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2005-2991 - Bugzilla

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