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CVE-2014-9636 json

unzip 6.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read or write and crash) via an extra field with an uncompres…

published 2015-02-06 11 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2014-9446

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
11.9%
EPSS 11.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 96%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

unzip 6.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read or write and crash) via an extra field with an uncompressed size smaller than the compressed field size in a zip archive that advertises STORED method compression.

Patch / fix

  • unzip Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 6.0-15

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2014-9636

  • unzip Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 6.0-9ubuntu1.2

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2014-9636

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • unzip RHEL 6 6.0-2.el6_6
  • unzip RHEL 7 6.0-15.el7
  • unzip RHEL 7 6.0-15.ael7b

red hat advisories RHSA-2015:0700

  • unzip SLES for SAP 12 SP3, SLES 12 SP3, SLED 12 SP3 6.00-33.8.1
  • unzip SLE Module for Basesystem 15 6.00-4.3.1
  • unzip SLES for SAP 12, SLES 12, SLED 12 6.00-32.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2018:2978-1SUSE-SU-2018:1883-1SUSE-SU-2015:0355-1

  • unzip openSUSE Tumbleweed 6.00-39.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:11485-1

  • unzip Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +17 more 6.0-r3

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2014-9636

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • unzip Azure Linux 3.0 6.0-20
  • unzip CBL-Mariner 2.0 6.0-19

azure linux advisories AZL-35334AZL-6936

Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2014-9636 updated cvss 6.8

unzip: out-of-bounds read/write in test_compr_eb() in extract.c

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 unzip
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) unzip 6.0-15.el7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7) unzip 6.0-15.el7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6) unzip 6.0-2.el6_6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6) unzip 6.0-2.el6_6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) unzip 6.0-2.el6_6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) unzip 6.0-15.el7, unzip 6.0-15.ael7b
    +2 more products
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) unzip 6.0-2.el6_6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) unzip 6.0-15.el7
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2015:0700

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

11.87% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

Sources

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