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USN-191-1: unzip vulnerability

30 September 2005

unzip vulnerability

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Details

Imran Ghory found a race condition in the handling of output files.
While a file was unpacked by unzip, a local attacker with write
permissions to the target directory could exploit this to change the
permissions of arbitrary files of the unzip user.

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Ubuntu Pro provides ten-year security coverage to 25,000+ packages in Main and Universe repositories, and it is free for up to five machines.

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 5.04
  • unzip -
Ubuntu 4.10
  • unzip -

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References