CVEvulnerability

CVE-2005-2991

2.1 LOW Published 2005-09-20 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2005-09-20
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• ncompress ncompress (<= 4.2.4 r1)

References