Vulnerability Details CVE-2002-0759
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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.005
EPSS Ranking 63.4%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v2 Score 5.0
References
- ftp://ftp.caldera.com/pub/security/OpenLinux/CSSA-2002-039.0.txt
- ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-02:25.bzip2.asc
- http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9126.php
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4774
- ftp://ftp.caldera.com/pub/security/OpenLinux/CSSA-2002-039.0.txt
- ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-02:25.bzip2.asc
- http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9126.php
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4774
Products affected by CVE-2002-0759
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cpe:2.3:a:bzip:bzip2:0.9.0
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cpe:2.3:a:bzip:bzip2:0.9.0a
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cpe:2.3:a:bzip:bzip2:0.9.0b
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cpe:2.3:a:bzip:bzip2:0.9.0c
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cpe:2.3:a:bzip:bzip2:0.9.5a
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cpe:2.3:a:bzip:bzip2:0.9.5b
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cpe:2.3:a:bzip:bzip2:0.9.5c
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cpe:2.3:a:bzip:bzip2:0.9.5d
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cpe:2.3:a:bzip:bzip2:1.0
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cpe:2.3:a:bzip:bzip2:1.0.1