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CVE Reference: CVE-2004-0970
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Original Page at CVE MITRE:
CVE-2004-0970

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.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

XF
  http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/17583

VULNWATCH

TRUSTIX
  http://www.trustix.org/errata/2004/0050

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA13131

MISC
  http://www.zataz.net/adviso/ncompress-09052005.txt

DEBIAN
  http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-588

BID
  11288


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