CVE-2004-0970
Publication date 9 February 2005
Last updated 17 July 2025
Ubuntu priority
Description
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. NOTE: the znew vulnerability may overlap CVE-2003-0367.