CVE-2005-1111

MEDIUM

cpio <2.6 - Local Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm

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.

References (19)

[Broken Link] ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:03.cpio.asc

[Broken Link] ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenServer/SCOSA-2006.2/SCOSA-2006.2.txt

[Broken Link] ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/UnixWare/SCOSA-2005.32/SCOSA-2005.32.txt

[Broken Link] http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-May/0004.html

[Mailing List] http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111342664116120&w=2

[Broken Link] http://secunia.com/advisories/16998

[Broken Link] http://secunia.com/advisories/17123

[Broken Link] http://secunia.com/advisories/17532

[Broken Link] http://secunia.com/advisories/18290

[Broken Link] http://secunia.com/advisories/18395

[Broken Link] http://secunia.com/advisories/20117

[Third Party Advisory] http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-846

[Broken Link] http://www.osvdb.org/15725

[Broken Link] http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-378.html

[Broken Link] http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-806.html

[Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13159

[Third Party Advisory] http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-189-1

[Broken Link] https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A358

[Broken Link] https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9783

Scores

CVSS v3 4.7

EPSS 0.0009

EPSS Percentile 26.0%

Attack Vector LOCAL

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

Classification

CWE

CWE-367 CWE-59

Status draft

Affected Products (5)

gnu/cpio < 2.6

debian/debian_linux

canonical/ubuntu_linux

Timeline

Published May 02, 2005

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026