CVE-2014-9636 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2014-9636

unzip 6.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of...

Vulnerability Description

unzip 6.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read or write and crash) via an extra field with an uncompressed size smaller than the compressed field size in a zip archive that advertises STORED method compression.

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.

References

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Affected Vendor

unzip project

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Affected Software

unzip, ubuntu linux, debian linux, fedora
Vulnerable Versions:
6.0, 10.04, 12.04, 14.04, 14.10, 7.0, 20, 21

Timeline

Official Publish: February 6th, 2015
Last Modified: August 6th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.