USN-2472-1: unzip vulnerabilities
Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2472-1
14th January, 2015
unzip vulnerabilities
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
Summary
unzip could be made to crash or run programs if it opened a specially crafted file.
Software description
- unzip - De-archiver for .zip files
Details
Wolfgang Ettlinger 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 6.0-12ubuntu1.1
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
- unzip 6.0-9ubuntu1.1
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
- unzip 6.0-4ubuntu2.1
- Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:
- unzip 6.0-1ubuntu0.1
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.