CVE-2005-2991

LowCVSS 2.1/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

Description

ncompress 4.2.4 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files using (1) zdiff or (2) zcmp, a different vulnerability than CVE-2004-0970.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 2.1/10AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

Timeline

Published: Sep 20, 2005
Last modified: Jun 16, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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