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gzip: race condition and directory traversal

Package(s):gzip CVE #(s):CAN-2005-0988 CAN-2005-1228
Created:May 4, 2005 Updated:July 13, 2005
Description: gzip suffers from a race condition which could allow a fast-fingered attacker to change the permissions on files owned by others. There is also a directory traversal vulnerability associated with the -N option.
Alerts:
Debian DSA-752-1 2005-07-11
Red Hat RHSA-2005:357-01 2005-06-13
OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2005.010 2005-06-10
OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2005.009 2005-06-10
Mandriva MDKSA-2005:092 2005-05-18
Gentoo 200505-05 2005-05-09
Trustix TSLSA-2005-0018 2005-05-06
Ubuntu USN-116-1 2005-05-04
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