CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2021-4217

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Aug 24, 2022 | Modified: Nov 29, 2022
CVSS 3.x
3.3
LOW
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
3.3 LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Ubuntu
LOW

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.

Weakness

A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Unzip Unzip_project 6.0 (including) 6.0 (including)
Unzip Ubuntu bionic *
Unzip Ubuntu devel *
Unzip Ubuntu esm-infra/xenial *
Unzip Ubuntu focal *
Unzip Ubuntu impish *
Unzip Ubuntu jammy *
Unzip Ubuntu kinetic *
Unzip Ubuntu lunar *
Unzip Ubuntu mantic *
Unzip Ubuntu noble *
Unzip Ubuntu trusty *
Unzip Ubuntu trusty/esm *
Unzip Ubuntu xenial *

Potential Mitigations

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