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CVE-2005-2991 unimportant priority: Debian including 1 source packages (ncompress), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5.
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.