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Unscored USN-2788-2 0 CVEs

unzip regression

Published Nov 9, 2015 · Updated Feb 10, 2026

Summary

USN-2788-1 fixed vulnerabilities in unzip. One of the security patches
caused a regression when extracting 0-byte files. This update fixes the
problem.

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Original advisory details:

Gustavo Grieco discovered that unzip incorrectly handled certain password
protected archives. If a user or automated system were tricked into
processing a specially crafted zip archive, an attacker could possibly
execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2015-7696)

Gustavo Grieco discovered that unzip incorrectly handled certain malformed
archives. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a
specially crafted zip archive, an attacker could possibly cause unzip to
hang, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2015-7697)

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 14.04 LTS 14.04:LTS unzip 6.0-9ubuntu1.5

References

  • report
    https://launchpad.net/bugs/1513293