USN-589-1: unzip vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 7.10
• Ubuntu 7.04
• Ubuntu 6.10
• Ubuntu 6.06

Packages

• unzip -

Details

Tavis Ormandy discovered that unzip did not correctly clean up pointers.
If a user or automated service was tricked into processing a specially
crafted ZIP archive, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with
user privileges.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 7.10

• unzip - 5.52-10ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 7.04

• unzip - 5.52-9ubuntu3.1

Ubuntu 6.10

• unzip - 5.52-8ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 6.06

• unzip - 5.52-6ubuntu4.1

In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the
necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2008-0888