CVE-2002-0761: Bzip BZIP2

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

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.