CVE-2002-0759

MediumCVSS 5.0/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 5.0/10AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9126.phpPatch, Vendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4774Patch, Vendor Advisory
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9126.phpPatch, Vendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4774Patch, Vendor Advisory

Timeline

Published: Aug 12, 2002
Last modified: Jun 16, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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