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Debian DSA-3113-1 Critical: Unzip Buffer Overflow Threats

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Calendar Grey December 28, 2014
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Debian DSA-3220-2 highlights an urgent unzip security patch addressing archive extraction flaws on January 15.
Michele Spagnuolo of the Google Security Team discovered that unzip, an extraction utility for archives compressed in .zip format, is affected by heap-based buffer overflows within...
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Summary

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in
version 6.0-8+deb7u1.

For the upcoming stable distribution (jessie), these problems will be
fixed soon.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 6.0-13.

We recommend that you upgrade your unzip packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/



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Package: unzip
CVE ID: CVE-2014-8139 CVE-2014-8140 CVE-2014-8141

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