vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-4672-1 (CVE-2016-9844): unzip vulnerabilities

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jan 18, 2017
Added
Dec 17, 2020
Modified
May 5, 2025

Description

Rene Freingruber discovered that unzip incorrectly handled certain
specially crafted password protected ZIP archives. If a user or automated
system using unzip were tricked into opening a specially crafted zip file,
an attacker could exploit this to cause a crash, resulting in a denial of
service. (CVE-2018-1000035)

Antonio Carista discovered that unzip incorrectly handled certain
specially crafted ZIP archives. If a user or automated system using unzip
were tricked into opening a specially crafted zip file, an attacker could
exploit this to cause a crash, resulting in a denial of service. This
issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 ESM and Ubuntu 14.04 ESM.
(CVE-2018-18384)

It was discovered that unzip incorrectly handled certain specially crafted
ZIP archives. If a user or automated system using unzip were tricked into
opening a specially crafted zip file, an attacker could exploit this to
cause resource consumption, resulting in a denial of service.
(CVE-2019-13232)

Martin Carpenter discovered that unzip incorrectly handled certain
specially crafted ZIP archives. If a user or automated system using unzip
were tricked into opening a specially crafted zip file, an attacker could
exploit this to cause a crash, resulting in a denial of service. This
issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 ESM, Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04
LTS. (CVE-2014-9913)

Alexis Vanden Eijnde discovered that unzip incorrectly handled certain
specially crafted ZIP archives. If a user or automated system using unzip
were tricked into opening a specially crafted zip file, an attacker could
exploit this to cause a crash, resulting in a denial of service. This
issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 ESM, Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04
LTS. (CVE-2016-9844)

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-unzip
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