ubuntu · CVE-2016-9844

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Priority: negligible Published: 2017-01-18 17:59:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 22:14:52 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2016-9844 negligible priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (unzip), 13 status rows across 13 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, eoan, focal, groovy, precise, trusty, upstream, xenial, yakkety, zesty): not-affected 6, ignored 4, released 3.

Description:

Buffer overflow in the zi_short function in zipinfo.c in Info-Zip UnZip 6.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a large compression method value in the central directory file header.

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