CVE ID:	CAN-2005-0953
Description:	Race condition in bzip2 1.0.2 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 bzip2 after the decompression is complete.
Test IDs:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.57810
Cross References:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2005-0953 Bugtraq: 20050330 bzip2 TOCTOU file-permissions vulnerability (Google Search) http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111229375217633&w=2 Bugtraq: 20070109 rPSA-2007-0004-1 bzip2 (Google Search) http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/456430/30/8730/threaded http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Nov/msg00002.html Debian Security Information: DSA-730 (Google Search) http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-730 http://www.fedoralegacy.org/updates/FC2/2005-11-14-FLSA_2005_158801__Updated_bzip2_packages_fix_security_issues.html http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:026 NETBSD Security Advisory: NetBSD-SA2008-004 ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2008-004.txt.asc http://www.openpkg.com/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2007.002.html RedHat Security Advisories: RHSA-2005:474 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-474.html SGI Security Advisory: 20060301-01-U ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060301-01.U.asc http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103118-1 http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-200191-1 Cert/CC Advisory: TA07-319A http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-319A.html BugTraq ID: 12954 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12954 BugTraq ID: 26444 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26444 http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10902 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3525 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3868 http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1154 http://secunia.com/advisories/19183 http://secunia.com/advisories/27274 http://secunia.com/advisories/27643 http://secunia.com/advisories/29940 XForce ISS Database: bzip2-toctou-symlink(19926) http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/19926

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