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USN-1308-1: bzip2 vulnerability

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USN-1308-1: bzip2 vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
12/14/2011
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/06/2013
Modified
07/09/2020

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.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-bzip2

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