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CVE-2002-0759

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.0 Published: 2002-08-12 Modified: 2026-06-16

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.

Affected Platforms

Bzip Bzip2

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References