CVEvulnerability
CVE-1999-1332
2.1 LOW
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 1999-12-31
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Description
gzexe in the gzip package on Red Hat Linux 5.0 and earlier allows local users to overwrite files of other users via a symlink attack on a temporary file.
Affected configurations
• redhat linux (<= 5.0)
References
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=88603844115233&w=2 marc.info
- http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-308 www.debian.org
- http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/7241.php www.iss.net
- http://www.osvdb.org/3812 www.osvdb.org
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/rh50-errata-general.html#gzip www.redhat.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7845 www.securityfocus.com
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=88603844115233&w=2 marc.info
- http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-308 www.debian.org
- http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/7241.php www.iss.net
- http://www.osvdb.org/3812 www.osvdb.org
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/rh50-errata-general.html#gzip www.redhat.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7845 www.securityfocus.com