CVE-2005-4667
Buffer overflow in UnZip 5.50 and earlier allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long filename command line…
- Published
- Updated
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- mitre
Description
Buffer overflow in UnZip 5.50 and earlier allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long filename command line argument. NOTE: since the overflow occurs in a non-setuid program, there are not many scenarios under which it poses a vulnerability, unless unzip is passed long arguments when it is invoked from other programs.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list an Exploit-DB entry for it.
Exploit-DB1 entry
- Info-ZIP UnZip 5.x - File Name Buffer Overflow (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 26913remote, linuxpublished 19 Dec 2005Verified
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Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
Published
- 19 years later
· 19 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Low3.7 | AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.5% · top 25% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 3.7.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (13)
- 25098 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- USN-248-2 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- http://www.info-zip.org/FAQ.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- FLSA:180159 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- MDKSA-2006:050 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- 2006-0006 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_TRUSTIXx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11252 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- RHSA-2007:0203 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- USN-248-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- 20051219 Unzip *ALL* verisons ;)) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
- 22400 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 15968 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- DSA-1012 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2005-4661 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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