CVE-2015-1315: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 4.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in the charset_to_intern function in unix/unix.c in Info-Zip UnZip 6.10b allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted string, as demonstrated by converting a string from CP866 to UTF-8.

Affected products

  • Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 12.04 only; version 14.04 only; version 14.10 only
  • Info-Zip Unzip: version 6.10b only

Published 2015-02-23. Last modified 2026-06-17.