CVE-2004-1382: GNU Glibc

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

The glibcbug script in glibc 2.3.4 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files, a different vulnerability than CVE-2004-0968.

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; …

Published 2004-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.