CVE-2004-0770: Debian Linux

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

romload.c in DGen Emulator 1.23 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files during decompression of (1) gzip or (2) bzip ROM files.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 3.0 only
• Dgen Emulator: version 1.15 only; version 1.16 only; version 1.17 only; version 1.18 only; version 1.20 only; version 1.20_a only; …

Published 2005-01-10. Last modified 2026-06-16.