CVE-2002-0760 - CVE House
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Status published Low CVE-2002-0760

Race condition in bzip2 before 1.0.2 in FreeBSD 4.5 and...

Vulnerability Description

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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

bzip2
Vulnerable Versions:
0.9.0, 0.9.0a, 0.9.0b, 0.9.0c, 0.9.5a, 0.9.5b, 0.9.5c, 0.9.5d, 1.0, 1.0.1

Timeline

Official Publish: April 2nd, 2003
Last Modified: August 8th, 2024
Added to House: July 18th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.