CVE-2002-0761

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Summary

CVECVE-2002-0761
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2002-08-12 04:00:00 UTC
Updated2025-04-03 01:03:51 UTC
Descriptionbzip2 before 1.0.2 in FreeBSD 4.5 and earlier, OpenLinux 3.1 and 3.1.1, and possibly systems, uses the permissions of symbolic links instead of the actual files when creating an archive, which could cause the files to be extracted with less restrictive permissions than intended.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 2.1 from [email protected]

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
None
Availability
None

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Bzip Bzip2 0.9.0 All All All
Application Bzip Bzip2 0.9.0a All All All
Application Bzip Bzip2 0.9.0b All All All
Application Bzip Bzip2 0.9.0c All All All
Application Bzip Bzip2 0.9.5a All All All
Application Bzip Bzip2 0.9.5b All All All
Application Bzip Bzip2 0.9.5c All All All
Application Bzip Bzip2 0.9.5d All All All
Application Bzip Bzip2 1.0 All All All
Application Bzip Bzip2 1.0.1 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
bzip2 Archive Inherited Symbolic Link Permissions Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
ISS X-Force Database: bzip2-compression-symlink (9128): bzip2 compressed files could inherit the permissions of a symbolic link af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.iss.net Patch, Vendor Advisory
ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-02:25.bzip2.asc af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 ftp.freebsd.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
ftp.caldera.com/pub/security/OpenLinux/CSSA-2002-039.0.txt af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 ftp.caldera.com
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