USN-3320-1: zziplib vulnerabilities

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3320-1

15th June, 2017

zziplib vulnerabilities

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its
derivatives:

• Ubuntu 17.04



• Ubuntu 16.10



• Ubuntu 16.04 LTS



• Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary

zziplib could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a
specially crafted file.

Software description

• zziplib
  - library providing read access on ZIP-archives
  
  

Details

Agostino Sarubbo discovered that zziplib incorrectly handled certain
malformed ZIP files. If a user or automated system were tricked into
opening a specially crafted ZIP file, a remote attacker could cause zziplib
to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary
code.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package version:

Ubuntu 17.04:

Ubuntu 16.10:

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:

To update your system, please follow these instructions:
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