CVE-2002-0760 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.

Reference

ftp://ftp.caldera.com/pub/security/OpenLinux/CSSA-2002-039.0.txt ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-02:25.bzip2.asc http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9127.php http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4775