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low 3.7

CVE-2005-0988 json

Race condition in gzip 1.2.4, 1.3.3, and earlier, when decompressing a gzipped file, allows local users to modify permissions of arbitrary…

published 2005-04-06 21 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2005-0989

cvss
3.7
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.7%
EPSS 0.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 51%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Race condition in gzip 1.2.4, 1.3.3, and earlier, when decompressing a gzipped file, 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 gzip after the decompression is complete.

Patch / fix

  • gzip Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.3.5-10

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2005-0988

  • gzip RHEL 3 1.3.3-12.rhel3
  • gzip RHEL 4 1.3.3-15.rhel4

red hat advisories RHSA-2005:357

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2005-0988 updated

security flaw

  • Red Hat Desktop version 3 gzip 1.3.3-12.rhel3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 gzip 1.3.3-12.rhel3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 gzip 1.3.3-15.rhel4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 gzip 1.3.3-15.rhel4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 gzip 1.3.3-12.rhel3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 gzip 1.3.3-15.rhel4
    +2 more products
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3 gzip 1.3.3-12.rhel3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 gzip 1.3.3-15.rhel4
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2005:357

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.66% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 51% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 3.7 AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

CPEs and fixed versions use Anchore's correction of NVD's data: Fix old broken CPEs.