CVE-2014-9636
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.
Does this matter?
EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 11.9%, higher than 96% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.
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.
- CVSS 2.0
- 5.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- EPSS
- 11.87% probability · 96th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-119
- Affected
- unzip project/unzip · canonical/ubuntu linux · debian/debian linux · fedoraproject/fedora
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 11.9% since 4 November 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148792.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148849.html
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/1131
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/489
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/496
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q1/216
- http://secunia.com/advisories/62738
- http://secunia.com/advisories/62751
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3152
- http://www.info-zip.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=450Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71825
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2489-1
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201611-01
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148792.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148849.html
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/1131
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/489
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/496
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q1/216
- http://secunia.com/advisories/62738
- http://secunia.com/advisories/62751
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3152
- http://www.info-zip.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=450Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71825
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2489-1
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201611-01
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.