CVE-2021-4217

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Aug 24, 2022
Updated: Aug 3, 2024
Reserved: Jan 27, 2022

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.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference

Affected Products

Product	Versions
unzipn/a	unzip 6.0Affected

References

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unzip/+bug/1957077
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2044583
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-4217

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