CVE-2004-0970 describes a local file overwrite vulnerability affecting the gzexe, zdiff, and znew scripts within the gzip package, as well as other packages like ncompress. This flaw allows a local attacker to overwrite arbitrary files through a symlink attack on temporary files. With a CVSS score of 2.1 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N), it indicates low severity, requiring local access with low attack complexity, and resulting in partial integrity impact without confidentiality or availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.2.4aCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gzip:1.2.4a:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
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