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CVE-2002-0760

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-r…

Impact

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

VendorProductAffected versions
BzipBzip2
Versions 0.9.0, 0.9.0a, 0.9.0b, 0.9.0c, 0.9.5a, 0.9.5b

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