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CVE-2015-7697

Impact:: Moderate
Public Date:: 2015-09-07

Bugzilla:: 1260944: CVE-2015-7696 CVE-2015-7697 unzip: Heap overflow and DoS in 6.0

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Info-ZIP UnZip 6.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via empty bzip2 data in a ZIP archive.

Find out more about CVE-2015-7697 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score	6
Base Metrics	AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Medium
Authentication	Single
Confidentiality Impact	Partial
Integrity Impact	Partial
Availability Impact	Partial

Find out more about Red Hat support for the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).

Affected Packages State

Platform	Package	State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	unzip	Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	unzip	Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	unzip	Will not fix

Last Modified 2018-05-01T21:54:21+00:00

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