CVE-2002-0760

Severity: low (CVSS 1.2 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2002-08-12 · updated 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 products

Bzip2: 0.9.0, 0.9.0a, 0.9.0b, 0.9.0c, 0.9.5a, 0.9.5b (+4)

References

http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9127.php
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4775
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9127.php
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4775

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