Vulnerability in Bzip Bzip2

CVE-2002-0759

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.

EPSS: 0.013 (68.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Bzip Bzip2 — versions 0.9.0, 0.9.0a, 0.9.0b
  • N/a — versions n/a

References

  • cve@mitre.org (Patch, vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory, x_refsource_XF)
  • cve@mitre.org (Patch, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, Vendor Advisory)