CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2011-4089

Published: Apr 16, 2014 | Modified: Apr 17, 2014
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
4.6 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

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 Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Bzip2 Bzip * 1.0.4 (including)
Bzip2 Bzip 1.0 (including) 1.0 (including)
Bzip2 Bzip 1.0.1 (including) 1.0.1 (including)
Bzip2 Bzip 1.0.2 (including) 1.0.2 (including)
Bzip2 Bzip 1.0.3 (including) 1.0.3 (including)
Bzip2 Ubuntu devel *
Bzip2 Ubuntu hardy *
Bzip2 Ubuntu lucid *
Bzip2 Ubuntu maverick *
Bzip2 Ubuntu natty *
Bzip2 Ubuntu oneiric *
Bzip2 Ubuntu upstream *

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