CVEvulnerability
CVE-2011-4089
4.6 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2014-04-16
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
The bzexe command in bzip2 1.0.5 and earlier generates compressed executables that do not properly handle temporary files during extraction, which allows local users to execute arbitrary code by precreating a temporary directory.
Affected configurations
• bzip bzip2 (<= 1.0.4)
• bzip bzip2 1.0
• bzip bzip2 1.0.1
• bzip bzip2 1.0.2
• bzip bzip2 1.0.3
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2011/Oct/804 seclists.org
- http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/18147 Exploit
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/10/28/16 www.openwall.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1308-1 Patch
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=632862 Patch
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2011/Oct/804 seclists.org
- http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/18147 Exploit
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/10/28/16 www.openwall.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1308-1 Patch
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=632862 Patch