CVE-2004-0970 (GCVE-0-2004-0970)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2004-10-20 04:00
Modified
2024-08-08 00:38
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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.
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