cve/2016/CVE-2016-9844.md

CVE-2016-9844

Description

Buffer overflow in the zi_short function in zipinfo.c in Info-Zip UnZip 6.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a large compression method value in the central directory file header.

POC

Reference

• https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unzip/+bug/1643750

Github

• https://github.com/andir/nixos-issue-db-example
• https://github.com/phonito/phonito-vulnerable-container
• https://github.com/ronomon/zip