USN-7054-1

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.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:24.04:LTS / unzip

Package

Name: unzip
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/unzip@6.0-28ubuntu4.1?arch=source&distro=noble

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

6.0-28ubuntu4.1

Affected versions

6.*

6.0-28ubuntu1

6.0-28ubuntu2

6.0-28ubuntu3

6.0-28ubuntu4

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "6.0-28ubuntu4.1",
            "binary_name": "unzip"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-7054-1.json"

cves_map

{
    "cves": [
        {
            "id": "CVE-2021-4217",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "CVSS_V3",
                    "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L"
                },
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "low"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:24.04:LTS"
}