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.

Scoring

CVSS base score
0.01
EPSS probability
0.16%
Published
2003-04-02
Last modified
2026-03-16

Affected products

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