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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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2003-04-02T05:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-08T03:03:48.640Z
Reserved: 2002-07-25T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2002-0759
Vulnrichment
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NVD
Status : Analyzed
Published: 2002-08-12T04:00:00.000
Modified: 2008-09-05T20:28:52.600
Link: CVE-2002-0759
Redhat
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