CVE-1999-1332 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the gzexe utility within the gzip package on Red Hat Linux 5.0 and earlier. An attacker could exploit this by creating a symbolic link to a file owned by another user, allowing them to overwrite that file. This vulnerability has a low severity score of 2.1 (CVSS: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N), indicating it requires local access and has a low impact, primarily affecting data integrity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 5.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
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