CVE-2005-4667

Severity: low (CVSS 3.7 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2005-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Buffer overflow in UnZip 5.50 and earlier allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long filename command line argument. NOTE: since the overflow occurs in a non-setuid program, there are not many scenarios under which it poses a vulnerability, unless unzip is passed long arguments when it is invoked from other programs.

Affected products

Info-ZIP UnZip: 5.2, 5.3, 5.31, 5.32, 5.40, 5.41 (+2)

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2005-12/0930.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/25098
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1012
http://www.info-zip.org/FAQ.html
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:050
http://www.osvdb.org/22400
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0203.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/430300/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15968
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0006
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11252
https://usn.ubuntu.com/248-1/

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