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.
References
Link Resource
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-4217 Third Party Advisory
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unzip/+bug/1957077 Exploit Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2044583 Exploit Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2022-08-24T15:08:43

Updated: 2022-08-24T15:08:43

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


Link: CVE-2021-4217

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

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

Modified: 2022-11-29T15:45:16.200


Link: CVE-2021-4217

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cve-icon Redhat Information

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