CVE-2002-0759

Published Apr 2, 2003 CVSS 2.0 · 5.0 Medium EPSS 1.3% KEV · Not listed
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.

Remediation

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2002-0751 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.
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 8, 2024, 3:03 AM
Reserved
Jul 25, 2002, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Aug 12, 2002, 4:00 AM
Modified
Jun 16, 2026, 9:58 PM