Out-of-bounds read in UnZip - CVE-2014-9636
Published: July 7, 2018 / Updated: July 9, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU13613
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-9636
CWE-ID: CWE-125
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Info-ZIP
Affected software:
UnZip
UnZip
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.
The weakness exists due to out-of-bounds read when handling malicious input. A remote attacker can supply extra field with an uncompressed size smaller than the compressed field size in a zip archive that advertises STORED method compression and cause the service to crash.
How to mitigate CVE-2014-9636
Install update from vendor's website.