HTTP: UnZip Extra Fields Compressed Blocks Size Handling Heap Buffer Overflow

This signature detects attempts to exploit a known vulnerability against Unzip application. A successful exploit can lead to buffer overflow and remote code execution.

Extended Description

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.

Affected Products

Fedoraproject fedora

References

BugTraq: 71825

CVE: CVE-2014-9636

Short Name
HTTP:STC:UNZIP-EXTRA-FIELD-BO
Severity
Major
Recommended
False
Recommended Action
Drop
Category
HTTP
Keywords
Blocks Buffer CVE-2014-9636 Compressed Extra Fields Handling Heap Overflow Size UnZip bid:71825
Release Date
04/01/2015
Supported Platforms

srx-branch-12.3

srx-19.3

srx-branch-19.3

vsrx3bsd-19.2

srx-branch-19.4

vsrx-19.4

mx-12.3

mx-19.4

vmx-19.4

mx-19.3

vsrx3bsd-19.4

srx-19.4

vsrx-12.3

vmx-19.3

vsrx-19.2

srx-12.3

Sigpack Version
3761
False Positive
Unknown
Vendors

Unzip_project

Fedoraproject

Debian

Canonical

CVSS Score

5.0

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