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USN-248-1: unzip vulnerability

15 February 2006

unzip vulnerability

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Releases

Details

A buffer overflow was discovered in the handling of file name
arguments. By tricking a user or automated system into processing a
specially crafted, excessively long file name with unzip, an attacker
could exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the user's
privileges.

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 5.10
  • unzip -
Ubuntu 5.04
  • unzip -
Ubuntu 4.10
  • unzip -

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References