Directory Traversal Affecting minizip package, versions <1.1-6


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Debian security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
4.09% (91st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-MINIZIP-524955
  • published16 Jan 2018
  • disclosed16 Jan 2018

Introduced: 16 Jan 2018

CVE-2014-9485  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 minizip to version 1.1-6 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream minizip package and not the minizip package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:11 relevant fixed versions and status.

Directory traversal vulnerability in the do_extract_currentfile function in miniunz.c in miniunzip in minizip before 1.1-5 might allow remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a crafted entry in a ZIP archive.