PT-2004-1986 · Gnu · Gzip

Published 2004-10-20 · Updated 2017-07-11 · CVE-2004-0970

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

2.1

Low

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: gzip (affected versions not specified)

Description: The issue allows local users to overwrite files via a symlink attack on temporary files used by the gzexe, zdiff, and znew scripts in the gzip package.

Recommendations: At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Related Identifiers

CVE-2004-0970

DSA-588-1

Affected Products

Gzip

References · 10

• http://trustix.org/errata/2004/0050 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2004-0970 · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2004/dsa-588 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/11288 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2004-0970 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2004-0970 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2004-0970 · Vendor Advisory
• http://zataz.net/adviso/ncompress-09052005.txt · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/13131 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17583 · Note