CVE-2002-0759

2003-04-0205:00:00

mitre

www.cve.org

AI Score

6.5

Confidence

Low

EPSS

0.002

Percentile

52.0%

JSON

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.

References

ftp://ftp.caldera.com/pub/security/OpenLinux/CSSA-2002-039.0.txt

ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-02:25.bzip2.asc

www.iss.net/security_center/static/9126.php

www.securityfocus.com/bid/4774