CVE-2016-9844
MEDIUM4.0EPSS 9.8%Published: 1/18/2017Modified: 4/28/2026
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.
Affected packages (2)
- Alpine/unzipfrom 0, < 6.0-r3
- Debian/unzipfrom 0, < 6.0-21
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM4.0 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L |