VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2004-0970

CVSS score2.1 LOW
EPSS probability0.36%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2005-02-09
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

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.

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