CVE-2004-0970 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence

CVE Reference: CVE-2004-0970
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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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