CVE-2005-0988: Freebsd

Low severity, CVSS 3.7. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Freebsd Freebsd: version 4.0 only; version 4.1 only; version 4.1.1 only; version 4.2 only; version 4.3 only; version 4.4 only; …
• Gentoo Linux: any version
• GNU Gzip: version 1.2.4 only; version 1.2.4a only; version 1.3.3 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 2.1 only; version 3.0 only; version 4.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 3.0 only; version 4.0 only
• Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation: version 2.1 only
• Trustix Secure Linux: version 2.0 only; version 2.1 only; version 2.2 only
• Turbolinux Turbolinux Appliance Server: version 1.0_hosting only; version 1.0_workgroup only
• Turbolinux Turbolinux Desktop: version 10.0 only
• Turbolinux Turbolinux Home: any version
• Turbolinux Turbolinux Server: version 7.0 only; version 8.0 only; version 10.0 only
• Turbolinux Turbolinux Workstation: version 7.0 only; version 8.0 only
• Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux: version 4.1 only; version 5.04 only

Published 2005-05-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.