This page lists publicly disclosed CVE vulnerabilities affecting gnu gzip (linked via NVD CPE). Each row includes severity scores, summaries, and publication dates to help identify and analyze security issues.
| CVE | Summary | Source | Max CVSS | EPSS % | Published | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2022-1271 | An arbitrary file write vulnerability was found in GNU gzip's zgrep utility. When zgrep is applied on the attacker's chosen file name (for example, a crafted file name), this can overwrite an attacker's content to an arbitrary attacker-selected file. This flaw occurs due to insufficient validation when processing filenames with two or more newlines where selected content and the target file names are embedded in crafted multi-line file names. This flaw allows a remote, low privileged attacker to | [email protected] | 8.8 | 4.30% | 2022-08-31 | 2025-06-09 |
| CVE-2010-0001 | Integer underflow in the unlzw function in unlzw.c in gzip before 1.4 on 64-bit platforms, as used in ncompress and probably others, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted archive that uses LZW compression, leading to an array index error. | [email protected] | 6.8 | 4.77% | 2010-01-29 | 2026-04-29 |
| CVE-2009-2624 | The huft_build function in inflate.c in gzip before 1.3.13 creates a hufts (aka huffman) table that is too small, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash or infinite loop) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted archive. NOTE: this issue is caused by a CVE-2006-4334 regression. | [email protected] | 6.8 | 4.18% | 2010-01-29 | 2026-04-29 |
| CVE-2005-0758 | zgrep in gzip before 1.3.5 does not properly sanitize arguments, which allows local users to execute arbitrary commands via filenames that are injected into a sed script. | [email protected] | 4.6 | 0.53% | 2005-05-13 | 2026-04-16 |
| CVE-2005-1228 | 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. | [email protected] | 5.0 | 3.58% | 2005-05-02 | 2026-04-16 |
| CVE-2005-0988 | Race condition in gzip 1.2.4, 1.3.3, and earlier, when decompressing a gzipped file, allows local users to modify permissions of arbitrary files via a hard link attack on a file while it is being decompressed, whose permissions are changed by gzip after the decompression is complete. | [email protected] | 3.7 | 0.66% | 2005-05-02 | 2026-04-16 |
| CVE-2004-0970 | 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. | [email protected] | 2.1 | 0.36% | 2005-02-09 | 2026-04-16 |
| CVE-2004-0603 | gzexe in gzip 1.3.3 and earlier will execute an argument when the creation of a temp file fails instead of exiting the program, which could allow remote attackers or local users to execute arbitrary commands, a different vulnerability than CVE-1999-1332. | [email protected] | 10.0 | 3.13% | 2004-12-06 | 2026-04-16 |
| CVE-2004-1349 | gzip before 1.3 in Solaris 8, when called with the -f or -force flags, will change the permissions of files that are hard linked to the target files, which allows local users to view or modify these files. | [email protected] | 2.1 | 0.59% | 2004-10-04 | 2026-04-16 |
| CVE-2003-0367 | znew in the gzip package allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files. | [email protected] | 2.1 | 0.45% | 2003-07-02 | 2026-06-16 |
| CVE-2001-1228 | Buffer overflows in gzip 1.3x, 1.2.4, and other versions might allow attackers to execute code via a long file name, possibly remotely if gzip is run on an FTP server. | [email protected] | 7.5 | 3.06% | 2001-11-18 | 2026-06-16 |