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Alpine Linux: CVE-2016-9844: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

Published

Jan 18, 2017

Added

Aug 22, 2024

Modified

Jun 18, 2026

Description

Buffer overflow in the zi_short function in zipinfo.c in Info-Zip UnZip 6.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a large compression method value in the central directory file header.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-unzip

References

CVE-2016-9844
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2016-9844
https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2016-9844
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2016-10644
CWE-119
EUVD-EUVD-2016-10644

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