CVEvulnerability

CVE-2001-1228

7.5 HIGH Published 2001-11-18 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2001-11-18
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

Buffer overflows in gzip 1.3x, 1.2.4, and other versions might allow attackers to execute code via a long file name, possibly remotely if gzip is run on an FTP server.

Affected configurations

• gnu gzip 1.2.4 • gnu gzip 1.2.4a • gnu gzip 1.3

References