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CVE-2014-8140 (GCVE-0-2014-8140)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-01-31 22:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 13:10

Summary

Heap-based buffer overflow in the test_compr_eb function in Info-ZIP UnZip 6.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted zip file in the -t command argument to the unzip command.

Severity

7.8 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE

Buffer Overflow

Assigner

redhat redhat root

References

4 references

URL	Tags
http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2014-011.html	x_refsource_MISC
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015:0700	x_refsource_MISC
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1174851	x_refsource_MISC
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031433	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version	CPE status
Info-ZIP	UnZip	Affected: 6.0 and earlier	guessed

Date Public

2014-12-22 00:00

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RHSA-2015:0700

Vulnerability from csaf_redhat - Published: 2015-03-18 18:58 - Updated: 2026-06-27 10:10

Summary

Red Hat Security Advisory: unzip security update

Severity

Moderate

Scope

4 vulnerabilities in this advisory, including CVE-2014-8140.

CVE-2014-8140

An integer underflow flaw, leading to a buffer overflow, was found in the way unzip uncompressed certain extra fields of a file. A specially crafted Zip archive could cause unzip to crash when the archive was tested with unzip's '-t' option.

4.3 ()


                
                  AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Fixed: 41 products

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015:0700

Open the full advisory

SUSE-SU-2015:0377-1

Vulnerability from csaf_suse - Published: 2015-02-20 20:23 - Updated: 2015-02-20 20:23

Summary

Security update for unzip

Severity

Moderate

Scope

4 vulnerabilities in this advisory, including CVE-2014-8140.

CVE-2014-8140

7.8 (High)


                
                  CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Recommended: 17 products

Open the full advisory

UBUNTU-CVE-2014-8140 (CVE-2014-8140)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2014-12-28 00:00 – Updated: 2025-07-16 04:50 – Source website

Details

Severity

7.8 (High)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-8140	REPORT
	http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2014-011.html	REPORT
	https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2472-1	ADVISORY
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-8140	REPORT

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