Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2016-9844  

A buffer overflow in the zi_short function in zipinfo.c in Info-Zip UnZip 6.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a large compression method value in the central directory file header.

Severity Low

Remote Yes

Type Denial of service

Description

A buffer overflow in the zi_short function in zipinfo.c in Info-Zip UnZip 6.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a large compression method value in the central directory file header.

AVG-611 unzip 6.0-14 6.0-15 Medium Testing

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/05/13
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/05/13
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/05/20
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unzip/+bug/1643750
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/unzip/raw/rawhide/f/0001-Fix-CVE-2016-9844-rhbz-1404283.patch