CVE-2004-0970
N/A
Published: October 20, 2004 at 04:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:06 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorGzip
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.4%
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.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (6)
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
Source: [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-588VDB Entryx_refsource_BIDPatchVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11288VDB Entryx_refsource_XF
Source: [email protected]
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17583Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
NVD-CWE-Other
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