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Ubuntu 14.10 USN-2502-1 Critical: Unzip Code Execution Threat

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Calendar Grey February 17, 2015
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
The Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2503-1 highlights vulnerabilities in the tar utility that permit unauthorized code execution via manipulated tar archives.
unzip could be made to run programs if it opened a specially crafted file.

Summary

unzip could be made to run programs if it opened a specially crafted file.

Software Description:

- unzip: De-archiver for .zip files

Details:

William Robinet discovered that unzip incorrectly handled certain

malformed zip archives. If a user or automated system were tricked into

processing a specially crafted zip archive, an attacker could possibly

execute arbitrary code.

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Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 14.10:
  unzip                           6.0-12ubuntu1.3

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  unzip                           6.0-9ubuntu1.3

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  unzip                           6.0-4ubuntu2.3

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

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2502-1

CVE-2015-1315

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February 17, 2015

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Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unzip/6.0-12ubuntu1.3
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unzip/6.0-9ubuntu1.3
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unzip/6.0-4ubuntu2.3

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