CVE-2002-0759 | BDVDB-2026-5255 Detail

Description#

bzip2 before 1.0.2 in FreeBSD 4.5 and earlier, OpenLinux 3.1 and 3.1.1, and possibly other operating systems, does not use the O_EXCL flag to create files during decompression and does not warn the user if an existing file would be overwritten, which could allow attackers to overwrite files via a bzip2 archive.

Impact#

No impact statement in the source data.

Weaknesses#

No weakness recorded in the source data.

References#

http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9126.php
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4774

Exploit#

No public exploit known

History#

Version 12003-04-02Record published in the CVE List.
Version 22024-08-08Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.