vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2014-8140: Out-of-bounds Write

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jan 31, 2020
Added
Mar 26, 2024
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the test_compr_eb function in Info-ZIP UnZip 6.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted zip file in the -t command argument to the unzip command.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-unzip
Title
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