Description
A flaw was found in unzip. The vulnerability occurs due to improper handling of Unicode strings, which can lead to a null pointer dereference. This flaw allows an attacker to input a specially crafted zip file, leading to a crash or code execution.
Published: 2022-08-24
Score: 3.3 Low
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2021-34075 A flaw was found in unzip. The vulnerability occurs due to improper handling of Unicode strings, which can lead to a null pointer dereference. This flaw allows an attacker to input a specially crafted zip file, leading to a crash or code execution.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-5673-1 unzip vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-7054-1 unzip vulnerability
History

Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

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Metrics epss

{'score': 0.00134}

epss

{'score': 0.00138}


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Fedoraproject Fedora
Redhat Enterprise Linux
Unzip Project Unzip
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-03T17:16:04.487Z

Reserved: 2022-01-27T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2021-4217

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-08-24T16:15:10.090

Modified: 2024-11-21T06:37:10.350

Link: CVE-2021-4217

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2022-01-14T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2021-4217 - Bugzilla

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