CVE-2015-7697

Summary

CVECVE-2015-7697
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2015-11-06 18:59:00 UTC
Updated2019-12-16 20:24:00 UTC
DescriptionInfo-ZIP UnZip 6.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via empty bzip2 data in a ZIP archive.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-399

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 12.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 15.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 15.10 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 12.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 15.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 15.10 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 7.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 7.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Application Unzip Project Unzip 6.0 All All All
Application Unzip Project Unzip 6.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
USN-2788-2: unzip regression | Ubuntu UBUNTU www.ubuntu.com
oss-security - Heap overflow and DoS in unzip 6.0 MLIST www.openwall.com
UnZip Bugs Let Remote Users Deny Service and Execute Arbitrary Code - SecurityTracker SECTRACK www.securitytracker.com
Info-ZIP project / Patches / #23 [PATCH] fix infinite loop when extracting empty bzip2 data MISC sourceforge.net
oss-security - Re: Heap overflow and DoS in unzip 6.0 MLIST www.openwall.com
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-3386-1 unzip DEBIAN www.debian.org
Info-ZIP UnZip Heap Buffer Overflow and Denial of Service Vulnerabilities BID www.securityfocus.com
USN-2788-1: unzip vulnerabilities | Ubuntu UBUNTU www.ubuntu.com
oss-security - Re: Heap overflow and DoS in unzip 6.0 MLIST www.openwall.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 500709 Alpine Linux Security Update for unzip
  • 504482 Alpine Linux Security Update for unzip
  • 671101 EulerOS Security Update for unzip (EulerOS-SA-2019-2234)
  • 900181 CBL-Mariner Linux Security Update for unzip 6.0
  • 901077 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for unzip (6939-1)
  • 903343 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for unzip (1804)
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