CVE-2005-4667
Buffer overflow in UnZip 5.50 and earlier allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long filename command line argument. NOTE: since the overflow occurs in a non-setuid program,
02 Description
Buffer overflow in UnZip 5.50 and earlier allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long filename command line argument. NOTE: since the overflow occurs in a non-setuid program,
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 1.51% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 74.3% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- Low. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2006-01-25 21:00Z20 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 23:53Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2006-01-25
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferClass
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 6ca5d91a91a54b435bf69af7355b2796dff75f37ef2603815dae774838a5b359
05 Affected products
06 References
- secunia.com25098http://secunia.com/advisories/25098
- usn.ubuntu.comUSN-248-2https://usn.ubuntu.com/248-2/
- www.info-zip.orghttp://www.info-zip.org/FAQ.html
- www.securityfocus.comFLSA:180159http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/430300/100/0/threaded
- www.mandriva.comMDKSA-2006:050http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:050
- www.trustix.org2006-0006http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0006
- oval.cisecurity.orgoval:org.mitre.oval:def:11252https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11252
- www.redhat.comRHSA-2007:0203http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0203.html
- usn.ubuntu.comUSN-248-1https://usn.ubuntu.com/248-1/
- archives.neohapsis.com20051219 Unzip *ALL* verisons ;))http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2005-12/0930.html
- www.osvdb.org22400http://www.osvdb.org/22400
- www.securityfocus.com15968http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15968
- www.debian.orgDSA-1012http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1012
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- unzip Fixed in 5.52-7
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- unzip Fixed in 5.52-7
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- unzip Fixed in 5.52-7
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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