Vulnerabilities > GNU > Gzip > Low

DATE CVE VULNERABILITY TITLE RISK
2005-05-02 CVE-2005-0988 Race condition in gzip 1.2.4, 1.3.3, and earlier, when decompressing a gzipped file, allows local users to modify permissions of arbitrary files via a hard link attack on a file while it is being decompressed, whose permissions are changed by gzip after the decompression is complete.
local
high complexity
gnu freebsd gentoo redhat trustix turbolinux ubuntu
3.7
2005-02-09 CVE-2004-0970 Insecure Temporary File Creation vulnerability in GNU Gzip 1.2.4A
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.
local
low complexity
gnu
2.1
2003-07-02 CVE-2003-0367 Improper Input Validation vulnerability in multiple products
znew in the gzip package allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files.
local
low complexity
gnu debian CWE-20
2.1