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.
Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2021-34075 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-5673-1 unzip vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-7054-1 unzip vulnerability
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History

Mon, 02 Nov 2026 19:30:00 +0000

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{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

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{'score': 0.00134}

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{'score': 0.00138}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2026-11-02T18:11:46.107Z

Reserved: 2022-01-27T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2021-4217

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T17:16:04.487Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

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

Modified: 2026-11-02T19:17:46.990

Link: CVE-2021-4217

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2022-01-14T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2021-4217 - Bugzilla

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