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cpio — security advisory
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.
- Products
- cpio
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 2.6-6
- CVEs
- CVE-2005-1111
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 20:48 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2005-1111
cpio
Fixed versions: 2.6-6
cpio
Fixed versions: 2.6-6
cpio
Fixed versions: 2.6-6
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-23T04:00:20.101936432Z",
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 412156,
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