Vulnerability CVE-2004-0970
Published: 2005-02-09   Modified: 2012-02-12

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.

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
2.1/10
2.9/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
Partial
None
Affected software
GNU -> GZIP 

 References:
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11288
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/17583
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2004/0050
http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-588
http://www.zataz.net/adviso/ncompress-09052005.txt
http://secunia.com/advisories/13131
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