CVE-2015-7696

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 7.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-11-06 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Info-ZIP UnZip 6.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted password-protected ZIP archive, possibly related to an Extra-Field size value.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04, 15.04, 15.10
Debian Linux: 7.0, 8.0
github.com/yi-ge/unzip: 6.0

References

http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3386
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/09/07/4
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/09/15/6
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/09/21/6
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/10/11/5
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76863
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034027
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2788-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2788-2
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3386
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/09/07/4
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/09/15/6

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