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By the Year
In 2025 there have been 0 vulnerabilities in GNU Gzip. Gzip did not have any published security vulnerabilities last year.
| Year | Vulnerabilities | Average Score |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 | 0.00 |
| 2024 | 0 | 0.00 |
| 2023 | 0 | 0.00 |
| 2022 | 1 | 8.80 |
| 2021 | 0 | 0.00 |
| 2020 | 0 | 0.00 |
| 2019 | 0 | 0.00 |
| 2018 | 0 | 0.00 |
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Recent GNU Gzip Security Vulnerabilities
An arbitrary file write vulnerability was found in GNU gzip's zgrep utility
CVE-2022-1271
8.8 - High
- August 31, 2022
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 force zgrep to write arbitrary files on the system.
Improper Input Validation
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
CVE-2010-0001
- January 29, 2010
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.
Numeric Errors
gzip before 1.3 in Solaris 8, when called with the -f or -force flags, will change the permissions of files
CVE-2004-1349
- October 04, 2004
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.
Improper Privilege Management
