Description
Race condition in bzip2 before 1.0.2 in FreeBSD 4.5 and earlier, OpenLinux 3.1 and 3.1.1, and possibly other operating systems, decompresses files with world-readable permissions before setting the permissions to what is specified in the bzip2 archive, which could allow local users to read the files as they are being decompressed.
Metrics
CVSS 2.0 1.2/10
AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:NAffected software
No affected versions have been published.
Timeline
- Published
- Aug 12, 2002
- Last modified
- Jun 16, 2026
- NVD status
- Modified