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.
Advisories
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2002-0752 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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-08T03:03:47.936Z

Reserved: 2002-07-25T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2002-0760

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2002-08-12T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2025-04-03T01:03:51.193

Link: CVE-2002-0760

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