CVE-2004-1349

CVE-2004-1349 affects gzip releases 1.3 and earlier on Solaris 8. The vulnerability occurs when gzip is invoked with the -f or -force flags, causing it to alter permissions of files that are hard linked to the target, enabling local users to view or modify those linked files. Connected sources co...

Sun Solaris gzip may change permissions of hard linked files

Overview Sun Solaris gzip contains a vulnerability that may change the permissions of hard linked files. The specific impact may allow hard linked files compressed by gzip to become readable and able to be modified by unprivileged users. Description Gzip is a utility used for compressing and...