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CVE-2002-0760

LOW CVSS: 1.2 Published: 2002-08-12 Modified: 2026-06-16

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.

Affected Platforms

Bzip Bzip2

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References