CVE-2014-9636 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2014-9636?

CVE-2014-9636 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 6 Feb 2015. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-9636?

It affects 4 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Fedoraproject Fedora, Unzip Project Unzip.

How do I fix CVE-2014-9636?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2014-9636 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-9636 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as ALPINE-CVE-2014-9636, AZL-35334, AZL-6936, DEBIAN-CVE-2014-9636, DSA-3152-1, GHSA-9gph-v8wv-c92v and 3 more.