CVE-2002-0760: Bzip BZIP2

Low severity, CVSS 1.2. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

• Bzip BZIP2: version 0.9.0 only; version 0.9.0a only; version 0.9.0b only; version 0.9.0c only; version 0.9.5a only; version 0.9.5b only; …

Published 2002-08-12. Last modified 2026-06-16.