CVE-2002-0761

bzip2 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.

Score

CVSS 2.0 2.1 Low

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2002-08-12

Last modified

2024-08-08

Affected products

• Bzip2 (Bzip)

References

• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9128.php
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4776