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Second, when creating a new file, bzip2 closes the file before setting its permissions. Impact The first problem can cause bzip2 to extract a bzip2 archive to an infinitely large file. If bzip2 is used in automated processing of untrusted files this could be exploited by an attacker to create an denial-of-service situation by exhausting disk space or by consuming all available cpu time.
The second problem can allow a local attacker to change the permissions of local files owned by the user executing bzip2 providing that they have write access to the directory in which the file is being extracted. Workaround Do not uncompress bzip2 archives from untrusted sources and do not uncompress files in directories where untrusted users have write access.
Max CVSS | 0 |
Min CVSS | 0 |
Total Count | 2 |
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