CVEvulnerability

CVE-2004-0970

2.1 LOW Published 2005-02-09 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2005-02-09
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

The (1) gzexe, (2) zdiff, and (3) znew scripts in the gzip package, as used by other packages such as ncompress, allows local users to overwrite files via a symlink attack on temporary files. NOTE: the znew vulnerability may overlap CVE-2003-0367.

Affected configurations

• gnu gzip 1.2.4a

References