CVE-2004-0603

Severity

99%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

165%

gzexe in gzip 1.3.3 and earlier will execute an argument when the creation of a temp file fails instead of exiting the program, which could allow remote attackers or local users to execute arbitrary commands, a different vulnerability than CVE-1999-1332.

gzexe in gzip 1.3.3 and earlier will execute an argument when the creation of a temp file fails instead of exiting the program, which could allow remote attackers or local users to execute arbitrary commands, a different vulnerability than CVE-1999-1332.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 9.9. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

First reported 20 years ago

2004-12-06 05:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-07-11 01:30:00

Affected Software

GNU Gzip

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54890

Vendor Advisory

GLSA-200406-18

Patch, Vendor Advisory

10603

Patch, Vendor Advisory

gzip-gzexe-tmpfile(16506)

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