Bug 1850889 (CVE-2003-0367)

Summary: CVE-2003-0367 gzip: symlink attack on temporary files leads to arbitrary file overwrite
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gzip-1.3.5-openbsd-owl-tmp.patch none

Description msiddiqu 2020-06-25 06:12:23 UTC 
znew in the gzip package allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files.

References:

http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-308
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2003:068
http://www.openpkg.org/security/OpenPKG-SA-2003.031-gzip.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7872
http://www.turbolinux.com/security/TLSA-2003-38.txt
Comment 1 msiddiqu 2020-06-25 06:12:49 UTC 
Created gzip tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1850890]
Comment 2 Tomas Hoger 2020-06-26 08:55:38 UTC 
This was fixed some 15+ years ago and does not affect current Red Hat Enterprise Linux or Fedora versions.
Comment 3 Tomas Hoger 2020-06-26 08:57:37 UTC 
Created attachment 1698899 [details]
gzip-1.3.5-openbsd-owl-tmp.patch

The version of the patch as included in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 version of gzip.  A subset of it is also included in later gzip version in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7.
Comment 4 Product Security DevOps Team 2020-06-26 11:20:25 UTC 
This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2003-0367