CVE-2014-8141

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2014-8141  

Impact: Low Public Date: 2014-12-22 CWE: CWE-125 Bugzilla: 1174856: CVE-2014-8141 unzip: getZip64Data() out-of-bounds read issues (oCERT-2014-011) A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way unzip handled Zip64 files. A specially crafted Zip archive could possibly cause unzip to crash when the archive was uncompressed.

A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way unzip handled Zip64 files. A specially crafted Zip archive could possibly cause unzip to crash when the archive was uncompressed.

Find out more about CVE-2014-8141 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

This issue did not affect the versions of unzip as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 as they did not include support for Zip64.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 2.6
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity High
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (unzip) RHSA-2015:0700 2015-03-18
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (unzip) RHSA-2015:0700 2015-03-18

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 unzip Not affected

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank oCERT for reporting these issues. oCERT acknowledges Michele Spagnuolo of the Google Security Team as the original reporter.

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