CVE-2004-0970

Publication date

2004-10-20 04:00:00

Family

mitre

State

PUBLISHED

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.