Symlink Attack Vulnerability in gzexe, zdiff, and znew Scripts

CVE-2004-0970 · LOW Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

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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