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unzip — security advisory
Race condition in Unzip 5.52 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 Unzip after the decompression is complete.
- Products
- unzip
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 5.52-4
- CVEs
- CVE-2005-2475
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 20:44 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Race condition in Unzip 5.52 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 Unzip after the decompression is complete.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2005-2475
unzip
Fixed versions: 5.52-4
unzip
Fixed versions: 5.52-4
unzip
Fixed versions: 5.52-4
Complete source record
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"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2005-2475",
"method": "structured",
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"evidence": "osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2005-2475",
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],
"modified": "2026-10-23T03:47:32.607389613Z",
"provider": "osv",
"upstream": [
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],
"references": [
"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2005-2475"
]
},
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"security_relevant": true,
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},
"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 411927,
"published_at": "2005-08-05T04:00:00+00:00"
}