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Ubuntu 24.04 LTS USN-7054-1 critical: unzip denial of service

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Calendar Grey October 3, 2024
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Critical unzip vulnerability alert concerning Ubuntu's builds signals potential crashes and execution threats stemming from maliciously designed archives.
unzip could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.

Summary

unzip could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a

specially crafted file.

Software Description:

- unzip: De-archiver for .zip files

Details:

It was discovered that unzip did not properly handle unicode strings under

certain circumstances. If a user were tricked into opening a specially

crafted zip file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to cause unzip

to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary

code.

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service arbitrary code execution Ubuntu unzip

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
   unzip                           6.0-28ubuntu4.1

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

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7054-1

CVE-2021-4217

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7054-1

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service arbitrary code execution Ubuntu unzip

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unzip/6.0-28ubuntu4.1

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