CVE-2011-4089

EPSS 0.15%

Published: 4/16/2014Modified: 4/28/2026

Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2011-4089

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.

Affected packages (1)

Debian/bzip2from 0, < 1.0.6-1

References (1)

ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-4089