CVE-2002-0759
N/A
Published: April 2, 2003 at 05:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 09:58 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorBZIP2
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 1%
Description
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.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (4)
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_CALDERA
Source: [email protected]
ftp://ftp.caldera.com/pub/security/OpenLinux/CSSA-2002-039.0.txtVendor Advisoryx_refsource_FREEBSDPatch
Source: [email protected]
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-02:25.bzip2.ascVDB Entryx_refsource_XFPatchVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9126.phpVDB Entryx_refsource_BIDPatchVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4774Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
NVD-CWE-Other
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