Vulnerability CVE-2004-0603


Published: 2004-12-06   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
gzexe in gzip 1.3.3 and earlier will execute an argument when the creation of a temp file fails instead of exiting the program, which could allow remote attackers or local users to execute arbitrary commands, a different vulnerability than CVE-1999-1332.

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
10/10
10/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Complete
Complete
Complete
Affected software
GNU -> GZIP 

 References:
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/16506
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10603
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200406-18.xml
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54890

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