CVE-2014-9636
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.0EPSS 11.9%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 5.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- EPSS score
- 11.9% (96th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2014-9446)
- Published
- February 6, 2015
- NVD last modified
- June 17, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2014-9446 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- debian / debian linux
- fedoraproject / fedora
- fedoraproject / fedora
- unzip project / unzip
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148792.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148849.html
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/1131
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/489
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/496
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q1/216
- http://secunia.com/advisories/62738
- http://secunia.com/advisories/62751
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3152
- http://www.info-zip.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=450(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71825
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2489-1
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201611-01
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
Query CVEs from your AI assistant
The CVE/NVD Explorer brain answers CVE questions directly inside Claude, ChatGPT, or any MCP assistant — always up to date, no setup. Add it once and stop pasting advisories into chat.
Add the CVE brain