CVE-2005-1228

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-05-02 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in gunzip -N in gzip 1.2.4 through 1.3.5 allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary directories via a .. (dot dot) in the original filename within a compressed file.

Affected products

GNU gzip: 1.2.4, 1.3.3

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=305255
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006//Aug/msg00000.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111402732406477&w=2
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-357.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/15047
http://secunia.com/advisories/18100
http://secunia.com/advisories/21253
http://secunia.com/advisories/22033
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2006&m=slackware-security.555852
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-101816-1
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-752

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