CVE-1999-1332

Severity

21%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

48%

gzexe in the gzip package on Red Hat Linux 5.0 and earlier allows local users to overwrite files of other users via a symlink attack on a temporary file.

gzexe in the gzip package on Red Hat Linux 5.0 and earlier allows local users to overwrite files of other users via a symlink attack on a temporary file.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 2.1. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N).

Overview

First reported 25 years ago

1999-12-31 05:00:00

Last updated 8 years ago

2016-10-18 02:03:00

Affected Software

Red Hat Linux

References

19980128 GZEXE - the big problem

DSA-308

gzip-gzexe-tmp-symlink(7241)

3812

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/rh50-errata-general.html#gzip

7845

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