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Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:358 Date: 2005-08-08
Title: cpio Race Condition
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.
Version: 1 Class: vulnerability
Status: ACCEPTED Reference(s): CVE-2005-1111
Family: unix
Platform(s): Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Product(s): cpio
Definition Synopsis:

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