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CVE-2015-7697

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 6.1% 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-399

Description

Info-ZIP UnZip 6.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via empty bzip2 data in a ZIP archive.

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://sourceforge.net/p/infozip/patches/23/
• 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/2015/10/11/5
• 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://sourceforge.net/p/infozip/patches/23/
• http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3386
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/09/07/4

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