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CVE-2014-9913

Buffer overflow in the list_files function in list.c in Info-Zip UnZip 6.0 allows remote...

4.0 MediumFix available

Buffer overflow in the list_files function in list.c in Info-Zip UnZip 6.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via vectors related to the compression method.

Attack profile

How easy it is to exploit

Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges needed
None
User interaction
None

What an attacker can affect

Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Low

Exploit likelihood

1.45%Up 0.1 points since Feb 4, 2022
90%50%10%1%

What each source reports

NVD Score used 4.0

Buffer overflow in the list_files function in list.c in Info-Zip UnZip 6.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via vectors related to the compression method.

Record
CVE-2014-9913
CVSS 3.0
4.0 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS 2.0
2.1 LowAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weakness
CWE-119
Updated
2026-11-02
CVE List No score

Buffer overflow in the list_files function in list.c in Info-Zip UnZip 6.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via vectors related to the compression method.

Record
CVE-2014-9913
Updated
2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2014-9718 No score

Buffer overflow in the list_files function in list.c in Info-Zip UnZip 6.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via vectors related to the compression method.

Record
EUVD-2014-9718
Updated
2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-7vv9-r95r-f25f 4.0

Buffer overflow in the list_files function in list.c in Info-Zip UnZip 6.0 allows remote...

Buffer overflow in the list_files function in list.c in Info-Zip UnZip 6.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via vectors related to the compression method.

Record
GHSA-7vv9-r95r-f25f
CVSS 3.0
4.0 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Weakness
CWE-119
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVALPINE-CVE-2014-9913 4.0

Buffer overflow in the list_files function in list.c in Info-Zip UnZip 6.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via vectors related to the compression method.

Record
ALPINE-CVE-2014-9913
CVSS 3.0
4.0 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVAZL-35335 4.0

CVE-2014-9913 affecting package unzip for versions less than 6.0-20

Buffer overflow in the list_files function in list.c in Info-Zip UnZip 6.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via vectors related to the compression method.

Record
AZL-35335
CVSS 3.0
4.0 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Updated
2026-11-02
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OSVAZL-6937 4.0

CVE-2014-9913 affecting package unzip for versions less than 6.0-19

Buffer overflow in the list_files function in list.c in Info-Zip UnZip 6.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via vectors related to the compression method.

Record
AZL-6937
CVSS 3.0
4.0 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVBELL-CVE-2014-9913 4.0

CVE-2014-9913 does not affect BellSoft software

Record
BELL-CVE-2014-9913
CVSS 3.0
4.0 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Updated
2026-11-02
OSV 4.0

Buffer overflow in the list_files function in list.c in Info-Zip UnZip 6.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via vectors related to the compression method.

Record
CVE-2014-9913
CVSS 3.0
4.0 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVDEBIAN-CVE-2014-9913 4.0

Buffer overflow in the list_files function in list.c in Info-Zip UnZip 6.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via vectors related to the compression method.

Record
DEBIAN-CVE-2014-9913
CVSS 3.0
4.0 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVUBUNTU-CVE-2014-9913 4.0

Buffer overflow in the list_files function in list.c in Info-Zip UnZip 6.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via vectors related to the compression method.

Record
UBUNTU-CVE-2014-9913
CVSS 3.0
4.0 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVMGASA-2017-0015 No score

Updated unzip package fixes security vulnerabilities

It was discovered that "unzip -l" (CVE-2014-9913) and "zipinfo" (CVE-2016-9844) were vulnerable to buffer overflows when provided malformed or maliciously-crafted ZIP files.

Record
MGASA-2017-0015
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2017:0639-1 No score

Security update for unzip

This update for unzip fixes the following issues:

  • CVE-2014-9913: Specially crafted zip files could trigger invalid memory writes possibly resulting in DoS or corruption (bsc#1013993)
  • CVE-2015-7696: Specially crafted zip files with password protection could trigger a crash and lead to denial of service (bsc#950110)
  • CVE-2015-7697: Specially crafted zip files could trigger an endless loop and lead to denial of service (bsc#950111)
  • CVE-2016-9844: Specially crafted zip files could trigger invalid memory writes possibly resulting in DoS or corruption (bsc#1013992)
Record
SUSE-SU-2017:0639-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2018:2978-1 No score

Security update for unzip

This update for unzip fixes the following security issues:

  • CVE-2014-9913: Specially crafted zip files could trigger invalid memory writes possibly resulting in DoS or corruption (bsc#1013993)
  • CVE-2015-7696: Specially crafted zip files with password protection could trigger a crash and lead to denial of service (bsc#950110)
  • CVE-2015-7697: Specially crafted zip files could trigger an endless loop and lead to denial of service (bsc#950111)
  • CVE-2016-9844: Specially crafted zip files could trigger invalid memory writes possibly resulting in DoS or corruption (bsc#1013992)
  • CVE-2018-1000035: Prevent heap-based buffer overflow in the processing of password-protected archives that allowed an attacker to perform a denial of service or to possibly achieve code execution (bsc#1080074).
  • CVE-2014-9636: Prevent denial of service (out-of-bounds read or write and crash) via an extra field with an uncompressed size smaller than the compressed field size in a zip archive that advertises STORED method compression (bsc#914442).

This non-security issue was fixed:

+- Allow processing of Windows zip64 archives (Windows archivers set total_disks field to 0 but per standard, valid values are 1 and higher) (bnc#910683)

Record
SUSE-SU-2018:2978-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVUSN-4672-1 No score

unzip vulnerabilities

Rene Freingruber discovered that unzip incorrectly handled certain specially crafted password protected ZIP archives. If a user or automated system using unzip were tricked into opening a specially crafted zip file, an attacker could exploit this to cause a crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2018-1000035)

Antonio Carista discovered that unzip incorrectly handled certain specially crafted ZIP archives. If a user or automated system using unzip were tricked into opening a specially crafted zip file, an attacker could exploit this to cause a crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 ESM and Ubuntu 14.04 ESM. (CVE-2018-18384)

It was discovered that unzip incorrectly handled certain specially crafted ZIP archives. If a user or automated system using unzip were tricked into opening a specially crafted zip file, an attacker could exploit this to cause resource consumption, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2019-13232)

Martin Carpenter discovered that unzip incorrectly handled certain specially crafted ZIP archives. If a user or automated system using unzip were tricked into opening a specially crafted zip file, an attacker could exploit this to cause a crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 ESM, Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2014-9913)

Alexis Vanden Eijnde discovered that unzip incorrectly handled certain specially crafted ZIP archives. If a user or automated system using unzip were tricked into opening a specially crafted zip file, an attacker could exploit this to cause a crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 ESM, Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2016-9844)

Record
USN-4672-1
Updated
2026-11-02

Affected products

Affected packages

Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
unzip
Alpine:v3.10
before 6.0-r3
6.0-r3
unzip
Alpine:v3.11
before 6.0-r3
6.0-r3
unzip
Alpine:v3.12
before 6.0-r3
6.0-r3
unzip
Alpine:v3.13
before 6.0-r3
6.0-r3
unzip
Alpine:v3.14
before 6.0-r3
6.0-r3
unzip
Alpine:v3.15
before 6.0-r3
6.0-r3
unzip
Alpine:v3.16
before 6.0-r3
6.0-r3
unzip
Alpine:v3.17
before 6.0-r3
6.0-r3
unzip
Alpine:v3.18
before 6.0-r3
6.0-r3
unzip
Alpine:v3.19
before 6.0-r3
6.0-r3
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Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
unzip
Alpine:v3.20
before 6.0-r3
6.0-r3
unzip
Alpine:v3.21
before 6.0-r3
6.0-r3
unzip
Alpine:v3.22
before 6.0-r3
6.0-r3
unzip
Alpine:v3.23
before 6.0-r3
6.0-r3
unzip
Alpine:v3.24
before 6.0-r3
6.0-r3
unzip
Alpine:v3.5
before 6.0-r3
6.0-r3
unzip
Alpine:v3.6
before 6.0-r3
6.0-r3
unzip
Alpine:v3.7
before 6.0-r3
6.0-r3
unzip
Alpine:v3.8
before 6.0-r3
6.0-r3
unzip
Alpine:v3.9
before 6.0-r3
6.0-r3
unzip
Azure Linux:3
before 6.0-20
6.0-20
unzip
Azure Linux:2
before 6.0-19
6.0-19
unzip
Debian:12
before 6.0-21
6.0-21
unzip
Debian:13
before 6.0-21
6.0-21
unzip
Debian:14
before 6.0-21
6.0-21
unzip
Debian:7
before 6.0-8+deb7u6, plus listed versions
6.0-86.0-8+deb7u16.0-8+deb7u26.0-8+deb7u36.0-8+deb7u46.0-8+deb7u5
6.0-8+deb7u6
unzip
Mageia:5
before 6.0-13.3.mga5
6.0-13.3.mga5
unzip
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4
before 6.00-11.17.1
6.00-11.17.1
unzip
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP4
before 6.00-11.17.1
6.00-11.17.1
unzip
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP3
before 6.00-33.8.1
6.00-33.8.1
unzip
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3
before 6.00-33.8.1
6.00-33.8.1
unzip
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3
before 6.00-33.8.1
6.00-33.8.1
unzip
Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS
before 6.0-9ubuntu1.6, plus listed versions
6.0-9ubuntu16.0-9ubuntu1.16.0-9ubuntu1.26.0-9ubuntu1.36.0-9ubuntu1.46.0-9ubuntu1.5
6.0-9ubuntu1.6
unzip
Ubuntu:16.04:LTS
before 6.0-20ubuntu1.1, plus listed versions
6.0-17ubuntu16.0-19ubuntu16.0-19ubuntu26.0-20ubuntu1
6.0-20ubuntu1.1
unzip
Ubuntu:18.04:LTS
before 6.0-21ubuntu1.1, plus listed versions
6.0-21ubuntu1
6.0-21ubuntu1.1

History

History
RecordedChangedSources
aliasesEUVD
first indexedCVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV

Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.

In short

CVE-2014-9913 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 4.0) in Unzip Project Unzip, published December 13, 2016. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 1.45%, the 73rd percentile. Fixed in unzip 6.0-r3.

References

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