USN-2489-1 (UBUNTU-CVE-2014-9636)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2015-02-03 18:00 – Updated: 2026-02-10 04:40 – Source website
VLAI
Summary
unzip vulnerability
Details

Michal Zalewski discovered that unzip incorrectly handled certain malformed zip archives. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted zip archive, an attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code.


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  "affected": [
    {
      "database_specific": {
        "cves_map": {
          "cves": [
            {
              "id": "CVE-2014-9636",
              "severity": [
                {
                  "score": "medium",
                  "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
              ]
            }
          ],
          "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:14.04:LTS"
        }
      },
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "availability": "No subscription required",
        "binaries": [
          {
            "binary_name": "unzip",
            "binary_version": "6.0-9ubuntu1.2"
          }
        ]
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:14.04:LTS",
        "name": "unzip",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/unzip@6.0-9ubuntu1.2?arch=source\u0026distro=trusty"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "6.0-9ubuntu1.2"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
        "6.0-9ubuntu1",
        "6.0-9ubuntu1.1"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "details": "Michal Zalewski discovered that unzip incorrectly handled certain\nmalformed zip archives. If a user or automated system were tricked into\nprocessing a specially crafted zip archive, an attacker could possibly\nexecute arbitrary code.\n",
  "id": "USN-2489-1",
  "modified": "2026-02-10T04:40:52Z",
  "published": "2015-02-03T18:00:55Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2489-1"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-9636"
    }
  ],
  "related": [],
  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
  "summary": "unzip vulnerability",
  "upstream": [
    "UBUNTU-CVE-2014-9636"
  ]
}



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