USN-2489-1: unzip vulnerability

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2489-1

3rd February, 2015

unzip vulnerability

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

• Ubuntu 14.10


• Ubuntu 14.04 LTS


• Ubuntu 12.04 LTS


• Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

Software description

• unzip - De-archiver for .zip files

Details

Michal Zalewski 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.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 14.10:

unzip 6.0-12ubuntu1.2

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:

unzip 6.0-9ubuntu1.2

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:

unzip 6.0-4ubuntu2.2

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:

unzip 6.0-1ubuntu0.2

To update your system, please follow these instructions: http://bit.ly/1aJDvTw.

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

References

CVE-2014-9636

from Ubuntu Security Notices http://bit.ly/18KS4vl