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Debian LTS Advisory ([SECURITY] [DLA 1846-1] unzip security update)

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

5.0

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

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

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

4 years ago

Modified

Modified

4 years ago

Summary

The remote host is missing an update for the 'unzip' package(s) announced via the DSA-1846-1 advisory.

Insight

Insight

David Fifield discovered a way to construct non-recursive 'zip bombs' that achieve a high compression ratio by overlapping files inside the zip container. However the output size increases quadratically in the input size, reaching a compression ratio of over 28 million (10 MB -> 281 TB) at the limits of the zip format which can cause a denial-of-service. Mark Adler provided a patch to detect and reject such zip files for the unzip program.

Affected Software

Affected Software

'unzip' package(s) on Debian Linux.

Detection Method

Detection Method

Checks if a vulnerable package version is present on the target host.

Solution

Solution

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this problem has been fixed in version 6.0-16+deb8u4. We recommend that you upgrade your unzip packages.

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)