CVE-2011-4089

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Apr 16, 2014
Updated: Aug 6, 2024
Reserved: Oct 18, 2011

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.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

20111025 Re: Symlink vulnerabilitiesmailing-list
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=632862
USN-1308-1vendor-advisory
18147exploit
[oss-security] 20111028 Re: Request for CVE Identifier: bzexe insecure temporary filemailing-list

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