CVE-2005-4667 - CVE House
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Status published Low CVE-2005-4667

Buffer overflow in UnZip 5.50 and earlier allows user-assisted attackers...

Vulnerability Description

Buffer overflow in UnZip 5.50 and earlier allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long filename command line argument. NOTE: since the overflow occurs in a non-setuid program, there are not many scenarios under which it poses a vulnerability, unless unzip is passed long arguments when it is invoked from other programs.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

unzip
Vulnerable Versions:
5.2, 5.3, 5.31, 5.32, 5.40, 5.41, 5.42, 5.50

Timeline

Official Publish: January 25th, 2006
Last Modified: August 7th, 2024
Added to House: July 18th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.