CVE-2014-9636 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in unzip 6.0, affecting products from Canonical, Debian, Fedora Project, and Unzip Project. An attacker can trigger an out-of-bounds read or write, leading to a crash, by crafting a malicious zip archive with an extra field advertising STORED compression but having an uncompressed size smaller than the compressed size. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0 (medium severity) due to its network-based attack vector, low attack complexity, and potential for partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:unzip_project:unzip:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
10.04CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* | ||
12.04CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* | ||
14.04CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* | ||
14.10CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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CVE-2014-9636
Jun 11, 2024CVE-2014-9636
Aug 11, 2020unzip 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.
Feb 2, 2015unzip: out-of-bounds read/write in test_compr_eb() in extract.c
Nov 2, 2014