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Unscored USN-4672-1 5 CVEs

unzip vulnerabilities

Published Dec 16, 2020 · Updated Jun 29, 2026

Summary

Rene Freingruber discovered that unzip incorrectly handled certain
specially crafted password protected ZIP archives. If a user or automated
system using unzip were tricked into opening a specially crafted zip file,
an attacker could exploit this to cause a crash, resulting in a denial of
service. (CVE-2018-1000035)

Antonio Carista discovered that unzip incorrectly handled certain
specially crafted ZIP archives. If a user or automated system using unzip
were tricked into opening a specially crafted zip file, an attacker could
exploit this to cause a crash, resulting in a denial of service. This
issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 ESM and Ubuntu 14.04 ESM.
(CVE-2018-18384)

It was discovered that unzip incorrectly handled certain specially crafted
ZIP archives. If a user or automated system using unzip were tricked into
opening a specially crafted zip file, an attacker could exploit this to
cause resource consumption, resulting in a denial of service.
(CVE-2019-13232)

Martin Carpenter discovered that unzip incorrectly handled certain
specially crafted ZIP archives. If a user or automated system using unzip
were tricked into opening a specially crafted zip file, an attacker could
exploit this to cause a crash, resulting in a denial of service. This
issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 ESM, Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04
LTS. (CVE-2014-9913)

Alexis Vanden Eijnde discovered that unzip incorrectly handled certain
specially crafted ZIP archives. If a user or automated system using unzip
were tricked into opening a specially crafted zip file, an attacker could
exploit this to cause a crash, resulting in a denial of service. This
issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 ESM, Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04
LTS. (CVE-2016-9844)

Fixed packages 3

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 16.04 LTS 16.04:LTS unzip 6.0-20ubuntu1.1
Ubuntu · 18.04 LTS 18.04:LTS unzip 6.0-21ubuntu1.1
Ubuntu · Pro 14.04 LTS Pro:14.04:LTS unzip 6.0-9ubuntu1.6

Vulnerabilities 5

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-9913
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9844
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-18384
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-1000035
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-13232