CVEvulnerability

CVE-2005-1228

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2005-05-02 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2005-05-02
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in gunzip -N in gzip 1.2.4 through 1.3.5 allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary directories via a .. (dot dot) in the original filename within a compressed file.

Affected configurations

• gnu gzip 1.2.4 • gnu gzip 1.3.3

References