USN-8733-1: Gzip vulnerabilities

Michał Majchrowicz and Marcin Wyczechowski discovered that Gzip's gzexe utility created temporary files in an insecure manner when mktemp was unavailable. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to overwrite arbitrary files. CVE-2026-41991 Elias Hasas, Michał Majchrowicz and Marcin...

USN-8733-1 gzip vulnerabilities

Michał Majchrowicz and Marcin Wyczechowski discovered that Gzip's gzexe utility created temporary files in an insecure manner when mktemp was unavailable. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to overwrite arbitrary files. CVE-2026-41991 Elias Hasas, Michał Majchrowicz and Marcin...

USN-8512-1 gzip vulnerabilities

It was discovered that Gzip's gzexe utility handled temporary files in an insecure manner. When the mktemp utility was not available, gzexe constructed a temporary file path based on the process ID, which could be predicted. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to overwrite arbitrary...