CVE-2004-0968: GNU Glibc

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The catchsegv script in glibc 2.3.2 and earlier allows local users to overwrite files via a symlink attack on temporary files.

Affected products

• GNU Glibc: version 2.0 only; version 2.0.1 only; version 2.0.2 only; version 2.0.3 only; version 2.0.4 only; version 2.0.5 only; …
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 3.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 3.0 only

Published 2005-02-09. Last modified 2026-06-16.