Vulnerability in Bzip Bzip2

CVE-2002-0761

bzip2 before 1.0.2 in FreeBSD 4.5 and earlier, OpenLinux 3.1 and 3.1.1, and possibly systems, uses the permissions of symbolic links instead of the actual files when creating an archive, which could cause the files to be extracted with less restrictive permissions than intended.

EPSS: 0.004 (31.3th 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)