CVE-2011-4089

First published: Wed Apr 16 2014(Updated: )

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.

Credit: secalert@redhat.com

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