Debian Security Advisory
DLA-124-1 unzip -- LTS security update
- Date Reported:
- 28 Dec 2014
- Affected Packages:
- unzip
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 773722.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2014-8139, CVE-2014-8140, CVE-2014-8141. - More information:
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Michele Spagnuolo of the Google Security Team discovered that unzip, an extraction utility for archives compressed in .zip format, is affected by heap-based buffer overflows within the CRC32 verification function (CVE-2014-8139), the test_compr_eb() function (CVE-2014-8140) and the getZip64Data() function (CVE-2014-8141), which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
For Debian 6
Squeeze
, these issues have been fixed in unzip version 6.0-4+deb6u1