Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2489-1
3rd February, 2015
unzip vulnerability
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
Software description
- unzip
– De-archiver for .zip files
Details
Michal Zalewski 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
6.0-12ubuntu1.2
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
-
unzip
6.0-9ubuntu1.2
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
-
unzip
6.0-4ubuntu2.2
- Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:
-
unzip
6.0-1ubuntu0.2
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.