CVE - CVE-2002-0760

CVE-ID
CVE-2002-0760	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
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.
References
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BID:4775 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4775 CALDERA:CSSA-2002-039.0 URL:~~ftp://ftp.caldera.com/pub/security/OpenLinux/CSSA-2002-039.0.txt~~ (Obsolete source - check if archived by the Wayback Machine) FREEBSD:FreeBSD-SA-02:25 URL:ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-02:25.bzip2.asc XF:bzip2-decompression-race-condition(9127) URL:~~http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9127.php~~ (Obsolete source - check if archived by the Wayback Machine)
Date Record Created
20030402	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
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