Vulnerability Report

CVE-2002-0761

Title: bzip2 uses symlink permissions when creating archive (less restrictive)

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2002-0761.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Aug 12, 2002

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 2.1 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.39%

Vulnerability Summary

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.

Impacted Vendors

bzip 1

bzip2_project 1

Reference Links

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/9128.php http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4776 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/9128.php http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4776

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity LOW

2.1

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2002-0761 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

August 12, 2002 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


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

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.