Record summary

CVE-2011-4089 has a selected CVSS score of 4.6; EIP currently links 1 catalogued exploit.

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.

Description source: CVE List

Exploitation context

Available material

Catalogued exploits
1

Proofs of concept

1

Catalogued exploits

ExploitDBbzexe (bzip2) - Race ConditionExploitDB exploitby vladzNot analyzed1 file
ExploitDB

PoC details

References

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